General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: Revealed: the top secret rules that allow NSA to use US data without a warrant [View all]DallasNE
(8,013 posts)Must be considered as well. For instance does "evidence" imply a court order has been issues specific to this individual? If that is the case then they have a tap on that individual and this simply allows them to also look at the history, even for Americans inadvertently dragged into the database. If that is the case then that would make my "false" true. What you are implying is a data mining operation that is not specific to an individual but is used to identify that individual based on "evidence" obtained from the mining operation. If that is the case then my "false" would be false. And, yes, a data mining operation would obliterate the 4A. Likewise, if this is a data mining operation then we are right back at where we were under Bush and I find that extremely troubling. Right now I don't know because there is so much not yet said on the subject. Do you have anything that is more definitive on the subject that shows it to be a data mining operation?