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In reply to the discussion: Wyden, Udall vindicated: Obama Admin Caught LYING? [View all]DevonRex
(22,541 posts)36. Way before this, and even now, in a radio frequency world,
Conversations you don't want to hear intrude on what you're targeting. Say, 1983 Soviet nuclear launch sequences. And all the sudden you get a German farmer telling his wife he's moving his herd and won't be home for lunch. You adjust the equipment, tune him out.
Just think about how much military communication relies on radio frequency. And how much listening in goes on. And how many other people rely on the airwaves. Like farmers. Truck drivers. And terrorists. It's mobile. There one minute and gone the next. A lot of people in war zones are listened to that don't matter to the mission. They're tuned out.
They've just added cyberspace. More useless chatter that doesn't matter to the mission.They weed it out.
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Nope. The Patriot Act requires data collection be relevant to a specific authorized investigation.
limpyhobbler
Aug 2013
#66
you might as well as try to convince a "saved" fundamentalist Christian that the Bible is not the
Douglas Carpenter
Aug 2013
#8
This is how they reign in the internets! They own the mass media except for the net!
Dustlawyer
Aug 2013
#19