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U.S. to Allow Foreigners to Serve Warrants on U.S. Internet Firms
WSJ ^

Posted on 07/17/2016 3:50:05 PM PDT by TigerClaws

The Obama administration is working on a series of agreements with foreign governments that would allow them for the first time to serve U.S. technology companies with warrants for email searches and wiretaps—a move that is already stirring debates over privacy, security, crime and terrorism.

Brad Wiegmann, a senior official at the Justice Department, discussed the administration’s efforts during a public forum on Friday at a congressional office building in Washington, D.C. The first such agreement is being assembled with the U.K., he said.

Word of the plans came one day after a federal appeals court ruled that federal warrants couldn’t be used to search data held overseas by Microsoft Corp. , dealing the agency a major legal defeat.

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Giving away every bit of our sovereignty.
1 posted on 07/17/2016 3:50:05 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

Good. #### Zuckerburg and Ellison and Bezos and the rest of them.


2 posted on 07/17/2016 3:52:44 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: TigerClaws

He has only a little time left


3 posted on 07/17/2016 3:53:12 PM PDT by The Cuban (again)
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To: TigerClaws

Baton Rouge Shooter Gavin Eugene Long Was Nation Of Islam Member, Railed Against ‘Crackers’ On YouTube Channel [VIDEO]

http://dailycaller.com/2016/07/17/baton-rouge-shooter-gavin-eugene-long-was-nation-of-islam-member-railed-against-crackers-on-youtube-channel-video/


4 posted on 07/17/2016 3:53:12 PM PDT by GOPJ ("Diveristy" was a by-product of those yearning to be free coming here - it was NEVER the goal.)
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Saw that on the main thread. Daily Caller blew it open. FBI was trying to call him ‘anti government group’ member.


5 posted on 07/17/2016 3:54:22 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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Is this a one-way deal, or can we get overseas info as well?


6 posted on 07/17/2016 3:55:31 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: The Cuban; Travis McGee; SkyPilot; null and void

Yep, about 6 months to stir up more chaos; tell more lies “officially”.


7 posted on 07/17/2016 3:56:36 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: TigerClaws

Next stop the UN taking away your guns.


8 posted on 07/17/2016 3:56:40 PM PDT by Gaffer
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To: dp0622

First they came for Zuckerburg.....


9 posted on 07/17/2016 3:56:45 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Pearls Before Swine

It means foreigners and governments can go after American companies and we will bend over is what it means.


10 posted on 07/17/2016 3:56:56 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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...FBI was trying to call him ‘anti government group’ member...

They were saying he was a “sovereign citizen” group member. That didn’t compute.


11 posted on 07/17/2016 3:57:15 PM PDT by Sasparilla (Hillary for Prison 2016)
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U.S. to Allow Foreigners to Serve Warrants on U.S. Internet Firms

They'll be gettin' around to you, Zuckerberg.

12 posted on 07/17/2016 3:58:55 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (America, a Rule of Mob nation)
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Yes, what better way to ATTACK THE FIRST AMENDMENT than use foreigners to do the dirty work. Kinda removes the Constitution from the picture, does it not???

Trying to cram as much destruction of America as he can into the time left.


13 posted on 07/17/2016 4:00:28 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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LOL. They won’t come for Zuckerburg are you kidding me? They’ll come for anti-leftists/anti-islam/anti-NWO/anti-antichrist.


14 posted on 07/17/2016 4:00:34 PM PDT by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: dfwgator

Like He hasn’t asked for it with his incredible liberal bias

I think he blocked Palin for a month today.

So #### him. #### them all. And spend no American soldier’s life helping them


15 posted on 07/17/2016 4:00:49 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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[removes the Constitution]

That’s what “world” blah blah blah has had me concerned since Herbert uttered “New World Order”.

They most certainly want it to happen.


16 posted on 07/17/2016 4:03:08 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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Zuckerberg didn't block Palin: https://www.facebook.com/sarahpalin/
17 posted on 07/17/2016 4:07:59 PM PDT by palmer (Net "neutrality" = Obama turning the internet over to foreign enemies)
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Good!!! he’s still a liberal piece of #### and is not worth the blood of a single soldier.

Let all these guys get what they’ve been asking for.

They support obummer to a one.


18 posted on 07/17/2016 4:10:51 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: TigerClaws
So sovereignty means nothing? This is nonsense, just another attempt at world governance.
19 posted on 07/17/2016 4:11:25 PM PDT by Fungi (Make America America again.)
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To: TigerClaws

Trump needs to air out Homeland... lots of corruption, filth and liars in there... With any luck Trump will end that grouop and start over with Americans who love our county.


20 posted on 07/17/2016 4:11:31 PM PDT by GOPJ ("Diveristy" was a by-product of those yearning to be free coming here - it was NEVER the goal.)
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