Charter of the International Military Tribunal (From the Nuremberg trials )(http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/nuremberg/NurembergIndictments.html#Charter)
August 8, 1945
(Selected Articles)
ARTICLE 1
In pursuance of the Agreement signed on the 8th day of August 1945 by the Government of the United States of America, the Provisional Government of the French Republic, the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the Government of the Union of Sovie… Continue

The reason the government wants increased surveillance without warrants is really quite simple and if someone has mentioned this reason, I have not seen it. The reason is because they have so diminished their ability to collect real intelligence that they are trying anything to buck up their so-called intelligence.. Thus, they feel the need to check 'everything' that comes across the wire, whether it is on the phone or the internet.
What scanning every email or every phone call amounts to, is tr… Continue