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In reply to the discussion: The root issue Snowden exposed: Clapper's Library [View all]wandy
(3,539 posts)5. Let's take this "library" metaphor one step further............
We can think of the "meta data" as the covers of YOU'RE books. Now the covers of of each book is all Dewey Decimaled in happy ones and zeros format. Your book covers.
Still with me?
OK.......
"when we go in that library and look for the books that we need to open up and actually read."
He said it, not me.
Well if all you are going to save is the covers of the book, the "meta data", how the heck are you going to actually read the book if you didn't save the pages?
Ever get the feeling that somebody might be fibbing?
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well if snowden has the motherload as he has claimed then why isnt it in any of the documents?
DCBob
Jul 2013
#36
What he's implying is that every American now has an accessible "Permanent Record" of
GiaGiovanni
Jul 2013
#18
Clapper *clarified* his lie for the 1% and Snowden persists in his truth for the 99%
Catherina
Jul 2013
#19