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In reply to the discussion: Snowden is a criminal on the run, needs to be captured, and brought back to face justice. [View all]Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)15. I think one of the main points is to have access to the info after an attack
The tele-coms delete all of their info after 30 to 90 days - if the NSA didn't get the info to save then it would be completely gone.
So, using Boston as an example...
After a terrorist does something and they know his name they can go into the NSA meta-database and search to see who that person has communicated in the past in order to see if there are other people in the cell.
If the data is not stored/save by someone then there would be no way to go back and collect info the investigation.
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Snowden is a criminal on the run, needs to be captured, and brought back to face justice. [View all]
RBInMaine
Jun 2013
OP
Snowden said he was deciding to leak before the Nov 2008 election - he wasn't at BAH back then
Tx4obama
Jun 2013
#12
Please link to the court order(s) in full naming the suspects by name.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Jun 2013
#9
Sure about the tele-coms deleting the call data? Yeah, that's what they've been saying on the news.
Tx4obama
Jun 2013
#24
The billing records exist a while, but the conversations, unless they've changed since the 80's
freshwest
Jun 2013
#44
if this NSA matter is total hype and there is nothing to it that everyone didn't already know then
Douglas Carpenter
Jun 2013
#43