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disidoro01

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16. ok

Thu Aug 1, 2013, 05:56 AM

Aug 2013

We know that Snowden took this information and everybody had their thumb up their asses whle he was doing it. We have reports that some people to mine this are listening to personal calls without warrant. So i guess you can cling to this notion that the law sezs there must be oversight. While to do this, can you enlighten me on your views of the bush administration?
I want you to understand the hypocrisy when you and others talk of oversight and safety measures on data-mining (and the misguided belief that those measures are used) while showing what our government does whenever it wants to. A teenage boy was murdered ok? And you cheerleaders say crazy things about the ethics of our government.

So a few examples of dubious successes gleaned from how many billions of communications? I seriously want to know. How many successful uses of this entire program versus the sum total of captured data?

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What you'll be reading about NSA surveillance tomorrow (updated) [View all] sheshe2 Jul 2013 OP

I imagine Glenn is not going to sleep well tonight. randome Jul 2013 #1

Why would he not sleep well tonight? OP refers to what was going to happen (and did happen) today. deurbano Jul 2013 #9

Oh. Did I misinterpret the OP? I thought the story was about more documents being declassified. randome Jul 2013 #10

Informative post, thank you shawn703 Jul 2013 #2

I Don't Buy The Denials cantbeserious Jul 2013 #3

Gee, would you still be ok with it if you discovered that nebenaube Jul 2013 #4

If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear quinnox Jul 2013 #5

ok disidoro01 Jul 2013 #6

Well... sheshe2 Jul 2013 #11

ok disidoro01 Aug 2013 #16

They are not allowed to listen to Americans' calls without a warrant. randome Aug 2013 #17

The craziest thing I hear disidoro01 Aug 2013 #18

'Vacuuming up all communications'. Again, you are willing to take Greenwald's word for that. randome Aug 2013 #19

I would rather believe disidoro01 Aug 2013 #20

Well, they did get the "Insane Clown Posse" terrorists in Miami....after trying them 6 times. Fuddnik Jul 2013 #12

Thanks. Scurrilous Jul 2013 #7

Interesting that a 'civil libertarian' is using the 'constitution is not a suicide pact' argument PoliticAverse Jul 2013 #8

mahalo, she! the ultimate Cha Jul 2013 #13

K&R treestar Jul 2013 #14

Oops, you'll mess with the magick. freshwest Aug 2013 #15