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In reply to the discussion: List Of Americans Who Have Been Individually Spied On Will Soon Be Released "biggest disclosure yet" [View all]L0oniX
(31,493 posts)84. I can just imagine the outrage from congress and the senate as all their names are listed.
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List Of Americans Who Have Been Individually Spied On Will Soon Be Released "biggest disclosure yet" [View all]
Leopolds Ghost
May 2014
OP
By the way, for anyone reading this thread, The Bottom Two Video Links are the most important thing.
Leopolds Ghost
May 2014
#24
"The number of Youtube comments seems to have leveled off at 1,337 for some reason... just saying."
bananas
May 2014
#70
I know we are being spied on, and the President himself has admitted it. So either you believe him
sabrina 1
Jun 2014
#103
So if an American is on our soil but has been in contact with terrorist groups...
randome
May 2014
#58
Agreed. But there is no evidence the NSA monitors American suspects without a warrant.
randome
May 2014
#88
"They use blanket warrants". You are -again- talking about the phone metadata records.
randome
May 2014
#92
Per Gellman, who broke the story for Snowden at Wash. Post, there are 4 programs: 2 meta 2 content
Leopolds Ghost
Jun 2014
#98
Besides which, you are asserting that metadata is 4th-amendment proof just because of current court
Leopolds Ghost
Jun 2014
#99
I think this is a list of everyone who has been singled out under a secret court order.
Leopolds Ghost
May 2014
#76
... but since the NSA are apparently very careful to follow the FISA law (it's a rubber stamp court)
Leopolds Ghost
May 2014
#77
I suspect part of the reason for spreading it out is denying the government the opportunity...
Gravitycollapse
May 2014
#86
You don't agree with me at all, actually. The government image needed to be harmed.
Gravitycollapse
May 2014
#93
Be funnier to see the reaction of some of the Anti-Snowden crowd finding out they are being watched.
Katashi_itto
May 2014
#5
Should we be perversely proud of it? Who's the most watched person on DU?
Leopolds Ghost
May 2014
#12
at least I don't think what I am doing on DU is of concern to the govt....
VanillaRhapsody
May 2014
#42
Yes and they all have their Anarchists who don't believe in govt at all...
VanillaRhapsody
Jun 2014
#141
I just posted above (#99) about people apparently think warrantless wiretapping is constitutional
Leopolds Ghost
Jun 2014
#100
I've covered this extensively and supplied all the relevant appellate decisions. It's not opinion.
stevenleser
Jun 2014
#101
What you mean is that it's the opinion of the COURT system that Americans have no inherent 4th prot
Leopolds Ghost
Jun 2014
#106
No one has forgotten that the pretense of any semblance of oversight is a secret Star Chamber
TheKentuckian
Jun 2014
#147
It's not supposed to stop surveillance. It's supposed to be a near rubber stamp.
stevenleser
Jun 2014
#154
I have presented applicable appellate law to you and you have no counter for it.
stevenleser
Jun 2014
#163
You are using court cases to justify tyranny. The courts once held that slavery was ok
Leopolds Ghost
Jun 2014
#164
I am "doing" nothing. There is no tyranny. No one is being beaten or killed or denied agency.
stevenleser
Jun 2014
#175
First of all, you just made that up. Second there is no universal surveillance.
stevenleser
Jun 2014
#177
Certainly, KoKo! I saved the OP before I posted. Here's another good quote from Kos thread:
Leopolds Ghost
May 2014
#11
I second that sentiment....and some DU'ers are going to be so disappointed THEY are not on the list!
VanillaRhapsody
May 2014
#28
if the members of the top 400 families were on the list, we have a new law by next week. nt
Leme
May 2014
#22
"...a President who's been--from the get-go--all over this process to insure it IS gutted."
villager
May 2014
#31
Greenwald has no answer. He's probably trying to think up distinctive names right now.
randome
May 2014
#89
More crap, a different story, who thinks the NSA ic continuing these same programs?
Thinkingabout
May 2014
#62
He passed the background because he had help from at least one person inside the contractor
underthematrix
Jun 2014
#152
Yes, it's called the CIA. He *taught* at the Defense Intelligence School in DC
Leopolds Ghost
Jun 2014
#156
He is being used by many other countries, he is a patsy, don't know who the
Thinkingabout
Jun 2014
#162
He just keeps on giving, now it is not about revealing anything, he is not a patriot of the US
Thinkingabout
Jun 2014
#166
Well then why isn't the Administration prosecuting Bush Admin wrong-doers for NSA abuse?
Leopolds Ghost
Jun 2014
#179
To be fair to Holder, yes there is a tradition of selective prosecution in the interests of justice
Leopolds Ghost
Jun 2014
#180
It does not matter what the status on others committing crimes, when and if Snowden goes
Thinkingabout
Jun 2014
#182
What Snowden did is only a crime if you believe what the NSA did is NOT a crime.
Leopolds Ghost
Jun 2014
#183
Good, now this is settled, the procedure the NSA is following and has been following since 2008
Thinkingabout
Jun 2014
#185
No, what's settled is that you and stevenleser support the FISA "reform" act that legalized
Leopolds Ghost
Jun 2014
#188
What does corporate criminalshave to do with Snowden committing the crimes he committed?
Thinkingabout
Jun 2014
#189
No, I'm saying the courts said that if Verizon et al were turning over records as Drake said,
Leopolds Ghost
Jun 2014
#191
Is the present administration responsible for investigating the wrongs done in the Bush
Thinkingabout
Jun 2014
#181
I can release a list of names. Pull the white pages into an editor and pick them randomly
stevenleser
Jun 2014
#102
I think I heard Greenwald tell Colbert or somebody during his book tour that it would be August. nt
ChisolmTrailDem
Jun 2014
#105