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In reply to the discussion: How the NSA Helps the US Assassinate (Greenwald / Scahill) [View all]reusrename
(1,716 posts)Up until this last revelation about how they are using the metadata in order to pick out who to kill next with the drones, many people here argued that the metadata wasn't very useful for anything.
It's exactly what many of us tried to warn folks about. The metadata is THE ONLY EVIDENCE that is needed in order to put people on a KILL LIST.
Up until now, it was being argued by some people here that this kind of data mining was impossible. Now those same people here are saying that they knew it all the time and it's not a big deal.
I just cannot fathom how some of the members here are continuing to try and lecture us about how smart they are. They honestly don't have a clue. They are so clueless they don't even know how stupid they are behaving.
For more on how the metadata is used:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4478300