Massive dragnet sweeps up communications metadata, and financial records, while targets have all of their communications recordedPosted on 01/24/2009 7:05:25 PM PST by LuxMaker
Massive dragnet sweeps up communications metadata, and financial records, while targets have all of their communications recorded
In a scenario that sounds like the ramblings of a conspiracy theorist, former NSA analyst and now-whistleblower Russell Tice unveiled a massive NSA spying and wiretap program, which he claims vacuumed up an astonishing amount of communications and financial data on journalists and innocent Americans.
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Tice is not reliable, to say the least.
Yet the Journalists are most definitely in the tank.
That’s just the nature of antennas.
Is that why we’re so slow on this site, today? (Now that we’re under Zero?) /s
i live a pretty much boring life.
i hope the nsa enjoys monitoring it.
wouldn’t that take an inordinate amount of time for 300,000,000 americans?
Being an ignorant wretch, please tell me why?
Russell Tice is a name I don’t trust, but that doesn’t mean the govt is benign. There are NO truly independent watchdogs- especially now.
I've been thinking the same thing.
LOL They must think I’m crazy by now with no one here all day but me and the cats? They aren’t so good at conversations but they sure seem to like it when I talk to them. :)
Wonder if any “innocent Americans” can come forth with proof that they were spied on?
Usually, in true surveillance societies, like the old USSR and allied countries, there is a certain stability in the government. As we saw last November, our government is not that stable. Consider that the elections went over to the side that was supposedly being suppressed.
I am worried that our current President, and his cabal, might crave this sort of stability.
Yes. The tin-foil hat wearers who believe the government is monitoring everyone all the time never seem to comprehend how much effort, money, and manpower such a surveillance society would entail.
Oh, I know. Government confiscation of assets in the form of taxes is good. National defense is bad.
...much more likely the nature of 5ESS, DMS-100, Carnivore, CRS-1, WireShark, Kismet, etc.
The tin-foil hat wearers who believe the government is monitoring everyone all the time never seem to comprehend how much effort, money, and manpower such a surveillance society would entail.
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Bingo!
But, of course, for those who think that whatever they have to say is so important, I guess, they have to think that somehow someone must want to listen to them.
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