Revealed: the top secret rules that allow NSA to use US data without a warrant

[MisterP]

156. Wyden said this in '11: "secret interpretation" of the law

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/05/secret-patriot-act/
and what's more important, then, isn't what they do with the data but the fact that they *can* collect it, and do so with *impunity*: blackmail is nothing compared to building a total paralegal wall to operate behind: same thing with the Cold War and Iran-Contra, same thing with Menem's total pardon of the Dirty War (in that case, arresting those with Freud and Lacan on their shelves as part of the Commie-Judeo-Masonic plot to undermine the Christian worldview was *secondary*)

power would lie not in pushing through sweeping laws like the "Patriot" Act, but in the power to make Star-Chamber secret interpretations and then take secret action and make secret institutions based on that self-made interpretation: there'd be nothing between the elite, establishment, and Beltway hegemonic ideas and their enforcement: these ideas, I might add, has brought us Vietnam, the mujahideen, Zia, 200K dead Central Americans, and buyouts of Middle Eastern kidnappers in the 80s and the commercialization of everything, the race to the bottom, Afghanistan, and Iraq in the 90s and 00s

they can secretly hire whatever Paulbots, Randroids, foaming Islamophobes, total-agreement lackeys, centurion wannabes, and Jonestowners with no line to cross as their spies and trainers (though one has shown us how he discovered his conscience and found lines he wouldn't cross)