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In reply to the discussion: Emails Show TPP 'Collusion' Between Big Banks & Obama Administration [View all]GoneFishin
(5,217 posts)33. "CIA moonlights in corporate world". The real reason for warrantless wire taps and email snooping.
The story that warrantless surveillance was for crime fighting purposes never passed the smell test. The likelyhood that people are illicitly profiting from inside knowledge not related to any official investigation fits perfectly.
They found multiple ways to cash in on information they aren't entitled to have. Narrow targeted search warrants would work fine for bonafide investigations. But shaking the whole tree and hoping something juicy falls out of it is much more profitable.
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Emails Show TPP 'Collusion' Between Big Banks & Obama Administration [View all]
Octafish
May 2016
OP
Obama's "behind the scenes" work on the TPP has been reported on for a very, very long time.
bjo59
May 2016
#1
I'll tell you what I do know: People who trash DUers can't find something wrong with what they post.
Octafish
May 2016
#70
Wealthiest times in human history, and they're prescribing austerity for commoners,
LongTomH
May 2016
#10
"CIA moonlights in corporate world". The real reason for warrantless wire taps and email snooping.
GoneFishin
May 2016
#33
K and R!!! You bet! And the kitty youtubes is most awfully kewt! (Don't look at the man
Akamai
May 2016
#30
'Goldman Sachs urging him to push for "robust commitments" on Investor-State Dispute Settlement'
think
May 2016
#8
Is This Barack Obama's 2nd Term? Is it Bill Clinton's 3rd? Or Is It Ronald Reagan's 9th?
Octafish
May 2016
#91
There's a "Thank you, Sir" thread currently worshipping him as the best President ever.
MadDAsHell
May 2016
#34
I much prefer those posts of pictures of Obama with his family where all the responses all
Gene Debs
May 2016
#49
Similarly, environmental groups, unions, etc., sent letters to Obama and Congress on TPP.
Hoyt
May 2016
#54
Actually,you are quite wrong. While you were whining about TPP, he slipped Paris Accord
Hoyt
May 2016
#81
Thank goodness for laws requiring gov e-mail servers and the FOIA. Except for Hillary of course
Teamster Jeff
May 2016
#57
Those that conspire will try to cover themselves by trying to denigrating anyone that
rhett o rick
May 2016
#75