‘Who Can Possibly Stand Against Them?’: Buck Sexton Highlights ‘Chilling Effects of NSA Domestic Surveillance Programs

Photo Credit: TheBlaze TVTheBlaze’s national security expert Buck Sexton appeared on The Glenn Beck Program Monday to discuss the alarming quantities of information the U.S. government is gathering on its citizens, and the ramifications it may have on the future of the country.

Sexton began by referencing a Wall Street Journal report that he says highlights how “NSA-derived data has officially been used in a criminal prosecution.”

“This was against a suspected would-be terrorist, somebody who was going to travel overseas allegedly to join the fighting in Syria,” Sexton said. “But in the court documents given over to his lawyer, it’s become clear that some of the knowledge that the government had derived from the NSA.”

“This was not with some special warrant,” he continued. “This was just – the NSA had this stuff, they decided to give it to criminal authorities.”

Sexton said that the government always starts with using information against “the worst of the worst,” but that it’s only a matter of time before the government starts using “this massive trove of data that’s just at its fingertips” in other ways.

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