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Phone Sex, Banks & Google for Emails: The NSA Spying Is Bigger Than Verizon
The Atlantic Wire ^
| June 6, 2013
| Elspeth Reeve
Posted on 06/06/2013 3:09:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"My own understanding is that the NSA routinely collects millions of domestic-to-domestic phone records. It does not do anything with them unless there is a need to search through them for lawful purposes."
That's like searching millions of domestic homes, cars, and persons, and not doing anything with what they find unless there is a need to for "lawful" purposes. Used to be that evidence obtained without a warrant was not admissible.
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posted on
06/06/2013 3:14:09 PM PDT
by
Sopater
(Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? - Matthew 20:15a)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
“Caviar?....portabella?..Stasi?”
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posted on
06/06/2013 3:14:45 PM PDT
by
PATRIOT1876
(The only crimes that are 100% preventable are crimes committed by illegal aliens)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Just heard on FOX that the WaPo is reporting aprogram called prism that makes the Verizon phone records look like nothing
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posted on
06/06/2013 3:15:19 PM PDT
by
SE Mom
(Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
And yet still American lives were lost in terrorist attacks on Ft. Hood, Boston, and Benghazi. Strikes that our national security offices knew about in advance. So much for the lie that this is to make us safer.
Obama already surrendered the war on terror. This is data mining and nothing else.
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
And the NSA isn't just collecting the things we say. It's also tracking what we buy and where we go. Uh, now look, that five-speed musical vibrator was for a friend, all right?
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Well, I know now where the idea for “Person of Interest” on CBS came from.
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posted on
06/06/2013 3:35:21 PM PDT
by
machogirl
(First they came for my tagline)
To: Billthedrill
Nothing here, folks, just another watchdog function of the government to ensure the unemployment rate drops before the 2014 congressional elections.
Think TSA on steroids. Hire thousands to mine for digital gold for homeland security and come up with nothing to show for it but employment for the unemployable.
With great benefits, I might add.
Will have to bring the Morse code back to plot anything of significance.
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posted on
06/06/2013 3:38:48 PM PDT
by
urbanpovertylawcenter
(where the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
To: SE Mom
Total Information Awareness, if you remember that would-be office from back in the day.
In theory it never took off, but I can’t say I’m surprised it came to life anyway. Admiral Poindexter’s idea, if I’m recalling correctly.
Welcome to the Brave New World, folks. Hell, they probably know what time people drop a deuce in the morning.
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posted on
06/06/2013 3:51:44 PM PDT
by
AnAmericanAbroad
(It's all bread and circuses for the future prey of the Morlocks.)
To: urbanpovertylawcenter
I have a friend that, as soon as he retired, ditched every piece of electronic equipment he had. Hard to get a hold of, but hard to track too...
I've told mine that when the SHTF to smash/ditch their "smartphones" immediately, disconnect their computers from the internet, and hunker down. Walkie-talkies, CB, and Ham radio is coming back into style (just don't get DF'd)....
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posted on
06/06/2013 4:01:01 PM PDT
by
Dubh_Ghlase
(Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls, It tolls for thee.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
have to wonder just how many people are being blackmailed
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posted on
06/06/2013 4:09:21 PM PDT
by
Lera
(Proverbs 29:2)
To: Lera
have to wonder just how many people are being blackmailedThis.
To: Lera
Justice Roberts. No doubt in my mind.
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posted on
06/06/2013 4:11:36 PM PDT
by
rintense
To: Dubh_Ghlase
“...DF’d...”
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What’s that?
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posted on
06/06/2013 4:12:30 PM PDT
by
Repeal The 17th
(We have met the enemy and he is us.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
“It’s the largest database ever assembled in the world”
Isn’t that what that dingbat congresswoman said...
“Obama knows everything about everybody...”
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posted on
06/06/2013 4:14:53 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Remember: The NSA Utah Data Center will capture every digital phone call as a bit stream. With the log data and the algorithm by which to search the stream, they can tap the call without a warrant.
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posted on
06/06/2013 4:18:08 PM PDT
by
Carry_Okie
(An economy is not a zero-sum game, but politics usually is.)
To: rintense
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posted on
06/06/2013 4:18:42 PM PDT
by
Lera
(Proverbs 29:2)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
06/06/2013 4:20:16 PM PDT
by
cornelis
To: tet68
So this means that if I call the aliens from Tau Ceti,
or they call me, NSA won’t know what we talk about but
will know their number??? I don’t blame them,
I tried to look up the alien’s phone number on the
computer the other night and gave up after an hour,
there were so many leads and they wanted between
$1.95 and $12 dollars for the actual number...
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posted on
06/06/2013 4:20:31 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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