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In reply to the discussion: We now know exactly what happened. NSA will have the tapes. [View all]grantcart
(53,061 posts)7. They wouldn't, they store into a cloud and retrieve it later
NSA spends very little of its resources taping and listening to phone calls in real time in the way that we see in the movies.
The record and store billions of phone calls into a cloud and when they want to listen to it get a warrant and pull the particular phone conversation out of the cloud and listen to it.
While they don't record every single phone call they would have recorded every single phone call between the US and Russia and even more importantly particular phone calls are "lighted up" for recording by triggering particular words. Names like 'Obama', 'Clinton' or 'Trump' would be automatically tagged.
They will need a warrant to pull it down but the chance that this conversation exists in the cloud is very high.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/04/07/dea-bulk-telephone-surveillance-operation/70808616/
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Since Junior initated the phone call they would need a warrant to tape that particular call
grantcart
Jul 2017
#9
The Utah Data Center could trivially account for all international communication.
joshcryer
Jul 2017
#14
You started with the premise that you didn't think that NSA was storing many calls
grantcart
Jul 2017
#43
Your exact comment "I don't think there is any evidence they store call contents"
grantcart
Jul 2017
#48
I want to believe this but the usatoday article says the practice has been discontinued. n/t
pnwmom
Jul 2017
#29
Federal Prosecutors don't care about time frame. They only care about getting the biggest fish
grantcart
Jul 2017
#8
In baseball terms they never bunt but go for the fences with the bases loaded every time.
grantcart
Jul 2017
#19
"this is their superbowl" ??? Glad you know that ! So glad u are here. !!!
Laura PourMeADrink
Jul 2017
#20
Trump has gotten away with all this. Even with all this out in the open..he's clear & free so far.
Honeycombe8
Jul 2017
#23
One also wonders, when Ms. Veselnitskaya was "detained for hours" at Heathrow...
Barack_America
Jul 2017
#28
Superior post, grantcart!! Great bunch of sharp/knowledgable DU responses, too! Thanks, all!! n/t
Leghorn21
Jul 2017
#41
Great summary time line. And MSNBC has used a LOT of print journalist's work lately, with
FailureToCommunicate
Jul 2017
#55