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NSA deleted surveillance data it pledged to preserve
"Pollutico" ^
| 1-19-2018
| Josh Gerstein
Posted on 01/19/2018 8:02:54 PM PST by grey_whiskers
The agency tells a federal judge that it is investigating and 'sincerely regrets its failure.'
The National Security Agency destroyed surveillance data it pledged to preserve in connection with pending lawsuits and apparently never took some of the steps it told a federal court it had taken to make sure the information wasnt destroyed, according to recent court filings.
Word of the NSAs foul-up is emerging just as Congress has extended for six years the legal authority the agency uses for much of its surveillance work conducted through U.S. internet providers and tech firms. President Donald Trump signed that measure into law Friday.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: draintheswamp; nsa; surveillancestate; thelivesofothers
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Just as Pollutico broke the news of Obama blocking law enforcement from going after Hamas drug running, now they come out with this.
I call it a Surveillance State. Remember Maxine Waters' talk of Obama's biggest database evah. It started here.
To: grey_whiskers; neverdem; SunkenCiv; Cindy; LucyT; decimon; freedumb2003; ...
*PING*.
Pollutico got something right...
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posted on
01/19/2018 8:03:38 PM PST
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: grey_whiskers
More corruption of our country by OBAMA, the muslim POS phony ass president who entertained the muslim brotherhood on OUR WHITE HOUSE!
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posted on
01/19/2018 8:04:42 PM PST
by
high info voter
(Liberal leftists would have "un-friended" Paul Revere!)
To: grey_whiskers
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posted on
01/19/2018 8:06:06 PM PST
by
Lurkinanloomin
(Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
To: grey_whiskers
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posted on
01/19/2018 8:07:05 PM PST
by
gaijin
To: gaijin
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posted on
01/19/2018 8:08:33 PM PST
by
gaijin
To: grey_whiskers
I wonder if anyone is going to be held accountable for the deleted surveillance data.
To: grey_whiskers
There are no mistakes at this level. This was deliberate. And they’ll get away with it.
To: grey_whiskers
It is NOT POSSIBLE to be an “honest mistake”.
It requires a focused effort to make the primary and back-up data disappear.
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posted on
01/19/2018 8:11:08 PM PST
by
G Larry
(There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
To: grey_whiskers
Well, well, well, look at this. An agency that supposedly hears and records everything that is said by everyone, cannot “recall” anything when it is required by law. So tell me, what side is this agency’s side on, to whom are they accountable to, and what purpose are they serving? The NSA needs to be abolished, along with 90 percent of the federal government. Louis Lerner: “I have done nothing wrong” can be their excuse. This must stop. Drain this nefarious swamp now.
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posted on
01/19/2018 8:11:12 PM PST
by
Fungi
(Eat mushrooms often.)
To: Mr. N. Wolfe
You forgot to add the “/sarc” tag after your comment.
Unless you couldn't imagine that anyone wouldn't get the sarcasm. Anyone like me.
But no, no one will be held accountable.
Some pigs are always more equal than others, and their friend pigs as well.
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posted on
01/19/2018 8:12:24 PM PST
by
texas booster
(Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
To: grey_whiskers
Bullshit. There is a pattern here. The government is run by criminals.
To: grey_whiskers
You mean like wiped with a cloth?
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posted on
01/19/2018 8:14:30 PM PST
by
TruthWillWin
(The problem wiath socialists is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
To: grey_whiskers
It wasn’t a mistake, and the evidence wasn’t destroyed. Computer data never goes away.
To: Billthedrill
Certainly true. This is what these guys do for a living. All actions were deliberate. But, you know, whatever ...
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posted on
01/19/2018 8:17:27 PM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(Benedict McCain is the worst traitor ever to wear the uniform of the US military.)
To: grey_whiskers
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posted on
01/19/2018 8:17:30 PM PST
by
Revel
To: TruthWillWin
You mean like wiped with a cloth? ^%#*!!
I quit FRee Republic.
You win the Internet forever.
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posted on
01/19/2018 8:17:50 PM PST
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: Billthedrill
It’s not gone, only put in ‘eyes only’ files. Not for those who love the Constitution. These people live in spy novels.
Six days in May. Three days of the Condor. And .........
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posted on
01/19/2018 8:18:30 PM PST
by
Billyv
( Freedom isn't Free! Get off the sidelines!)
To: grey_whiskers
If they would just automatically throw everyone involved with “deleted” data in jail in cases like this for at least 20years no chance of parole, in a max security facility...
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posted on
01/19/2018 8:19:31 PM PST
by
Secret Agent Man
( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: gaijin
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posted on
01/19/2018 8:19:56 PM PST
by
CJ Wolf
(It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World)
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