US Gov Threatened Yahoo with $250,000++ Fine Per Day For Not Complying With NSA Data Requests

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14. well, denial just requires a declaration

http://www.nationaljournal.com/defense/everything-we-learned-from-edward-snowden-in-2013-20131231

WHat I find particularly amusing about that declaration is how easily it is overcome. For example, why praytell, are the big boys whining thusly

The National Security Agency has already referred the case to the Justice Department, and James Clapper, Obama’s director of National Intelligence, has said that Snowden’s leaks have done “huge, grave damage” to “our intelligence capabilities.” http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/why-edward-snowden-is-a-hero

if all he shared was common knowledge to so many?

The list of things one needs to suspend (or be lacking in) to do such is likely a very lengthy one, and includes character deficits of the kind they indict Snowden with/for.