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In reply to the discussion: How the NSA Helps the US Assassinate (Greenwald / Scahill) [View all]stillwaiting
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of privacy. The government/corporations can't really glean much information from the metadata that they collect from American citizens we're told, BUT
the U.S. Gov't. apparently uses metadata as a basis to KILL people from other nations. Doesn't that seem a little incongruous?
I don't believe that both can be true unless you're willing to admit that the U.S. Gov't. is killing quite a few innocent foreigners abroad.
And, while I believe a lot of information is, in fact, revealed by metadata, thus making the collection of this data a clear violation of our civil rights, I do not think it's very rational, or sane, to use metadata as a sole basis in making targeted drone strike decisions. A lot of innocent people are surely being killed, and we are creating more terrorists than we are killing in all likelihood.
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