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In reply to the discussion: FBI started surveillance of Occupy before it occupied [View all]hootinholler
(26,451 posts)I simply can't imagine the NSA allowing a direct connection to their DBs by anyone other than the NSA. It's just the way things are done in this sort of security environment. It's much more likely there is a private publish/subscribe service and you keep your own copy of the data you subscribe to. I was an uncleared tech consultant working for a large search engine company who's name does not begin with G (and was subsequently bought by another search engine company who's name also does not begin with G). In that position, I was handed test cases of problems to be solved. All I know is inference from the set of things I worked on.
I wish I could shed some light into the curiosities of the Cunningham case. Talk about the successes of a limited hang out strategy! The suppression of that investigation is IMHO legendary and is the root of the Attorneys General mass firings. If I could shed light there, you would already know me as a whistleblower or via an obituary.