NSA Parody Website More Real than the Real NSA WebsiteMelissa Melton Domestic Surveillance Directorate: Defending our nation. Securing the citizens, the page begins. What if we could build a national data warehouse containing information about every person in the United States? Thanks to secret interpretations of the PATRIOT ACT, top-secret Fourth Amendment exceptions allowed by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, and broad cooperation at the local, state, and federal level, we can! It even comes complete with lovely graphics showing how our government is illegally sucking up all of our data into a big brother vacuum: Nice, right? Whats funny (and by funny, I mean sad and pathetic) about this is that the NSA did just release a bunch of documents on Christmas Eve (when they knew no one would be paying attention) about all the ways the agency has essentially sidestepped the Constitution by snooping on Americans. On the official NSA webpage for that, someone in our government actually had the gall to write, NSA goes to great lengths to ensure compliance with the Constitution, laws and regulations. Uh-huh. Sure they do, even as they are literally providing redacted documents proving to each and every American citizen that they dont. In fact, at the time I read that, I wondered if that site was a parody. (Its not, by the way.) The parody site also says, Your Data: if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear. I guess thats what we will have to keep telling ourselves here in America Even as we watch the electronic concentration camp continue to be built up all around us and privacy becomes something that gets digitally scrubbed from our dictionaries. RELATED 