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Old 07-08-2012, 11:20 PM
 
Location: Anchorage, Alaska
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Good! It's time the governments massive spying apparatus was reined in. Hopefully this is just the beginning of a return to Constitutional behavior being forced upon the government.

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/t...spying-program

"For years, government lawyers have been arguing that our case is too secret for the courts to consider, despite the mounting confirmation of widespread mass illegal surveillance of ordinary people," said EFF Legal Director Cindy Cohn. "Now we have three former NSA officials confirming the basic facts. Neither the Constitution nor federal law allow the government to collect massive amounts of communications and data of innocent Americans and fish around in it in case it might find something interesting. This kind of power is too easily abused. We're extremely pleased that more whistleblowers have come forward to help end this massive spying program."
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Old 07-09-2012, 02:27 AM
 
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All of C-D is in that Data base I'd bet.
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Old 07-09-2012, 02:29 AM
 
Location: Anchorage, Alaska
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We're all domestic terrorists according to the FBI, left and right.
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Old 07-09-2012, 03:19 AM
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'power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely' ..they know you better than yourself
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Old 07-09-2012, 09:40 AM
 
Location: Raleigh, NC
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All of C-D is in that Data base I'd bet.
But unfortunately people are naive enough to believe it's actually used for anything other than high level aggregate trends. This isn't a Bourne movie. Microanalyzing the web will never be done by computer because it's computationally intractable.
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Old 07-10-2012, 02:29 PM
 
Location: Forests of Maine
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I had assumed that everyone knew this.
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Old 07-12-2012, 10:59 PM
 
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Dig this CATO Institute piece on TIA, a program John Poindexter annointed!


Beware of Total Information Awareness | Gene Healy | Cato Institute: Daily Commentary



Talk about San Antonio's huge NSA Cryptology Center....fun to google this one and see what pops up.

NSA Building Largest Spy Center Ever – Patriot Update



NSA Supercenters to Store Americans' Private Data Permanently
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