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truedelphi

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14. The oversight you are happily proclaiming is so minimal that it might as well be non-existent-
Sun Jun 30, 2013, 06:05 PM
Jun 2013

That is one concern. Also, the algorithm used to decide if the email or phone is sourced from a foreign source is correct a mere 51% of the time. And when the FISA court has been asked for the right to utilize the mega data and re-constitute the information, that privilege is usually - at least 95% of the time - permitted.

Furthermore, as serious journalists have attempted to explain, this Totalitarian Surveillance is shutting down journalism. (Not that the American people had much journalism going on anyway. Our media is nothing more than movie-star-in-appearance stenographers reporting on what the PTB tell them to report on.)



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