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JDPriestly

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28. They admit that they are collecting the metadata on individuals.

Sat Jul 6, 2013, 01:59 AM

Jul 2013

With that data, they know every time you call your member of Congress.

If you are a government employee and your boss knows you are aware of he boss's corruption and the Congress finds out about it, your metadata can be reviewed and you will be fired, maybe tried as a leaker if you work, say, in Homeland Security or the military or the NSA or CIA.

So, this program insures that crooks in government will enjoy job security.

And I am talking about the collection of metadata, not the collection of the content in communications with or without a warrant.

The metadata collection is a huge, huge problem.

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