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Utah lawmaker questions city water going to NSA
Associated Press ^ | Nov 19, 2014 8:50 PM EST | Lindsay Whitehurst

Posted on 11/19/2014 7:15:20 PM PST by Olog-hai

A Utah lawmaker concerned about government spying on its citizens is questioning whether city water service should be cut off to a massive National Security Agency data storage facility outside Salt Lake City.

Republican Rep. Marc Roberts, of Santaquin, said there are serious questions about privacy and surveillance surrounding the center, and several Utah residents who spoke at a legislative committee hearing Wednesday agreed.

During the last legislative session, lawmakers opted to hold off on Roberts’ bill to shut off the facility’s water and decided to study it during the interim. …

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TOPICS: Government; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: marcroberts; nsa; saltlakecity; utahdatacenter; yeswescan
This is resurfacing after first hearing about it last February?
1 posted on 11/19/2014 7:15:21 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Now this sounds interesting. Put a rider in the DC Budget bill to shut off water to INS.


2 posted on 11/19/2014 7:17:47 PM PST by 11th_VA (Impeachment = President Joe Biden)
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To: Olog-hai

It’s fair:

Obama is a leader who repeatedly led others to believe if there are laws you don’t like, then you simply don’t follow them:

A state doesn’t like federal drug laws? Meh —don’t follow them.

A city doesn’t like federal immigration laws. No matter —pretend they don’t exist.

And then, there isn’t really a LAW Utah has to fork over rivers of water to the NSA, right?

Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.


3 posted on 11/19/2014 7:20:49 PM PST by gaijin
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To: Olog-hai

Guess who’s about to get audited


4 posted on 11/19/2014 7:44:34 PM PST by muir_redwoods ("He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative." G.K .C)
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To: Olog-hai

Eminent Domain...

10th amendment be damned...


5 posted on 11/19/2014 9:06:57 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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