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In reply to the discussion: Glenn Greenwald: I Defend Snowden Like MSNBC Defends Obama '24 Hours A Day' [View all]Pholus
(4,062 posts)And certainly the organization that did this immediately prior to the NSA had a motto you'll agree with:
"Sciencia est potentia"
Of course, we will never see this treasure trove of stuff...
1) Every phone call record in the US with no expiration date
2) Contact email and IM lists with no expiration date
3) Content and metadata of emails, web activity, chats, social networks with no expiration date
4) E-mail and texts crossing the border (even if it comes right back) with no expiration date
5) Cellphone locations
6) Insertion of deliberate weak spots in encryption algorithms
7) Monitoring of INTERNAL Yahoo and Google servers
8) Monitoring of online games.
9) Monitoring and tracking of websites visited.
...being abused in the Cardinal Richilieu sense because a secret court is watching out for our interests though only the Government is allowed to present its side of the case.
Except it is plain the NSA has already considered blackmail of its opponents in order to use information to control and some of its members have discovered the personal utility of the data to their own twisted control game.
Personally, the more you show your outrage at the government's dirty laundry comes out, the more I laugh. After all,
you're on the record as having no problem with people going through MY dirty laundry.
What's good for the goose is good for the gander, I always say.
If the NSA has nothing to hide, it has nothing to fear. Bwahahahahaha!
On a personal note: I've noticed that you personally fling "libertarian" and "conservative" epithets at anything you don't like in much the same way a freeper would throw "socialist" and "liberal".
I wonder if you exercise a similar amount of thought before doing so....