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Other Agencies Clamor for Data N.S.A. Compiles
NY Times ^ | August 3, 2013 | ERIC LICHTBLAU and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT

Posted on 08/04/2013 6:42:40 AM PDT by bamahead

WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency’s dominant role as the nation’s spy warehouse has spurred frequent tensions and turf fights with other federal intelligence agencies that want to use its surveillance tools for their own investigations, officials say.

-SNIP-

“The other agencies feel they should be bigger players,” said Mr. Edgar, who heard many of the disputes before leaving government this year to become a visiting fellow at Brown University. “They view the N.S.A. — incorrectly, I think — as this big pot of data that they could go get if they were just able to pry it out of them.”

-SNIP-

The security agency, whose mission is to spy overseas, and the F.B.I., its main partner in surveillance operations, dominate the process as the Justice Department’s main “customers” in seeking warrants from the intelligence court, with nearly 1,800 approved by the court last year.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 4thamendment; fedzilla; nsa; rapeofliberty; tyranny
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To: bamahead
“The other agencies feel they should be bigger players,” said Mr. Edgar

What are the idiots at the NYT babbling about? There the fools who went all in to get Obama elected.

21 posted on 08/04/2013 11:05:43 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (The Lefties can drink Kool-Aid; I will drink Tea.)
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To: bamahead
The security agency’s spy tools are attractive to other agencies for many reasons. Unlike traditional, narrowly tailored search warrants, those granted by the intelligence court often allow searches through records and data that are vast in scope. The standard of evidence needed to acquire them may be lower than in other courts, and the government may not be required to disclose for years, if ever, that someone was the focus of secret surveillance operations.
 
No Effing Shiite!
 
The 4th amendment, 5th and 1st are not present in their minds as they consciously violate them over and over again with impunity
 
 

22 posted on 08/04/2013 11:09:11 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: bamahead

You kidding? /S

I wouldn’t be surprised if the local dog catcher wants this information.


23 posted on 08/04/2013 11:09:52 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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Officials in the national intelligence director’s office worry about opening the surveillance too widely beyond the security agency and the F.B.I. for fear of abuse, Mr. Edgar said. The two intelligence giants have been “burned” by past wiretapping controversies and know the political consequences if they venture too far afield, he added.
 
Oh, that is just so rich....

24 posted on 08/04/2013 11:32:37 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: Travis McGee

I wonder if it would occur to the Obama Doc that , after saying such a stupid thing, that he would probably die before Mr. Jones’ daughter?


25 posted on 08/04/2013 11:44:15 AM PDT by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: bamahead; All; Smokin' Joe; LucyT; ExTexasRedhead
WB, bamahead!

This video has made my day!

Popular Egyptian music video tells Obama to screw himself and stop funding Jihad terrorists

26 posted on 08/04/2013 2:58:00 PM PDT by Larousse2 (The price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance. ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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To: bamahead

It’s M.A.G.I.C.


27 posted on 08/05/2013 5:19:12 AM PDT by TArcher ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS, governments are instituted among men" -- Does that still work?)
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To: unixfox

“Revolt is coming.”

I’m curious, have the pro-statist, pro-NSA ‘Freepers’ warned you off on saying stuff like this as they have with me?


28 posted on 08/05/2013 11:00:17 AM PDT by MeganC (A gun is like a parachute. If you need one, and don't have one, you'll never need one again.)
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To: bamahead
Just wait until the FDA, EPA, and IRS get their hands on those goods...

And the Democratic Party campaign IT staff.

(If you can believe Maxine Waters, they already have it.)

29 posted on 08/05/2013 12:15:31 PM PDT by mbarker12474
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To: MeganC

They haven’t warned me. Even if they did, they would get get a severe lashing.

Those aren’t true Freepers if you ask me.


30 posted on 08/05/2013 1:38:44 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: bamahead

NSA collecting every word of every call - not just “metadata”

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/government_programs/july-dec13/whistleblowers_08-01.html


31 posted on 08/05/2013 6:39:13 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws - Tacituss)
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