More crackpot thinking from Glenn Greenwald

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86. GG's PoV seems to be that if a "former FBI agent" suggests the Administration

is engaged in a massive illegal circumvention of the Constitution prohibition of warrantless searches and seizures -- in the form of a constant ongoing effect to intercept and record and store the millions and millions of electronic communications that occur between people in the US every minute of every day -- then we must believe the claim

Never mind that most Americans would loudly and vocally oppose such a scheme or that most Senators and Representatives would stand up to oppose it. Never mind that the courts would find such a scheme unconstitutional. Never mind that there's no statutory authorization for such a scheme. Never mind that in many cases wiretap warrants to intercept electronic communications are currently unenforceable due to technical limitations. Never mind that most telecom companies have been complaining for years that its too difficult and expensive for them to provide access to even a small fraction of a percent of electronic communications. Never mind that conspiracy theorists have been making this claim for at least thirty years.

Nope. If a "former FBI agent" suggests "the government" is intercepting and recording and storing all electronic communications in the US, that's good enough for GG