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In reply to the discussion: For The Record: The NSA Spied on All Americans. It Is a Fact. [View all]randome
(34,845 posts)In fact, since the NSA is specifically forbidden from targeting citizens, there is information that refutes that idea.
But you're right in that if a foreign target is being monitored, there is no way to 'unhear' or to 'unsee' information that might be coming from an American citizen.
However, that's been the case ever since wiretaps were invented.
Neither Snowden nor Greenwald nor the Guardian have shown that the NSA is 'violating the Prime Directive', so to speak. They are forbidden by law from targeting citizens. If anyone has evidence this law is being violated, then I'd say we have plenty of reason to be outraged.
But where is that evidence?
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