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In reply to the discussion: Top-Secret Document Reveals NSA Spied On Porn Habits As Part Of Plan To Discredit 'Radicalizers' [View all]SpankMe
(3,780 posts)This has been revealed in prior Snowden leaks.
Then, they go into that massive datastore and pull specified information on specified individuals based on narrow search criteria; they "dip in the lake" as needed.
The report referenced in the news story focuses on the 6 individuals. With the capabilities that exist, it is ridiculous to believe that the NSA collected data on only these individuals and didn't collect data on anyone else.
It is likely that this data on everyone else is still in the datastore like a bunch of unexploded grenades ready to be picked up whenever a government operative wants information.
The Hoover legacy continues with the full force of the government behind it and enabled by the technology of the current time. To think otherwise is being willfully naive and intentionally argumentative.