[Nachum]

Hmmmm... must be fairly serious to respond on a Sunday night.

Full title: Top Spy: 'Single Analyst' Cannot 'Eavesdrop on Domestic Communications Without Proper Legal Authorization'

[GOPJ]

It means there was an active cell within the NSA... he wasn’t working alone...

Is that it?

[GOPJ]

It means there was an active cell within the NSA... the kid wasn’t working alone...

Is that it?

[FreeReign]

To eaves drop is to listen in real-time. So of course no agents are listening in real-time. That's the job of the computers. What the agents can do after the fact is access the zingabytes of private phone conversations that are gathered real-time by computer and then stored on the zygabyte servers.

So tired of the lies.

[stilloftyhenight]

In trying to sell this to the American people, they overlook one important fact. We can no longer trust our government with any information. They have betrayed us and used the powerful IRS to attack Conservatives because of their beliefs. Now they say, “Trust me?”

My odds are better with a terrorist.

[Walkingfeather]

Bottom line is this... The NSA used tax payer dollars to create systems to spy on the very tax payers that funded it. Of course they kept the capability of these systems secret in order to create laws that would envelop those capabilities and the knowledge of their existence secret. Its like the movie the sting... The horse race has already been run, meanwhile the wiseguys are using our money to fund the rip off.... Think its time to stop talking and start ....

[sargon]

The statement that a single analyst can eavesdrop on domestic communications without proper legal authorization is incorrect.

Does "proper legal authorization" mean a warrant served according to due process? If not, then it's still Tyrannical, whether it takes one analyst or ten.

[FlyingEagle]

“Who are you going to believe? Me, or you lying eyes?”

[metafugitive]

As Eddie Snowden might say.”I ain’t no empty suit. I am an IT guy. I learned to hack around systems before I ever got a paycheck. I don’t need no stinkin’ legal authorization. Booz-Allen takes care of business by cashing the checks for their contracting fees and they leave the IT business to those who understand the IT protocols such as twenty nine year old high school dropouts like me.”