Posted on 06/18/2017 11:49:07 PM PDT by blueplum
The company, which wasn't named, quietly pushed back in the government's secret court against the National Security Agency's surveillance program, but ultimately failed.
{snip}....All of the documents relate to the government's use of the so-called Section 702 statute, named after its place in the law books, a provision of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The statute authorizes the collection of data on foreign persons overseas who use US tech and telecoms services.
The law is widely known in national security circles as forming the legal basis authorizing the so-called PRISM surveillance program, which reportedly taps data from nine tech titans including Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and others. It also permits "upstream" collection from the internet fiber backbones of the internet.
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PRISM surveillance program, which reportedly taps data from nine tech titans including Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and others. It also permits “upstream” collection from the internet fiber backbones of the internet.
Translation. The NSA takes everything, and keeps it. Then when any conversation is asked for, say of Trump the candidate, It is available to the Hillary campaign.
Mozilla?
This in part is why the Trump victory is so amazing. Despite all this surveillance, they couldn’t come up with anything to really discredit him. Unlike, I’m sure, the traitorous 90% of the GOP who, I suspect having some dirt hanging over them, toe the left line when it comes to the big issues!
And that is the police state in fact.
Back in the 1960s it was J. Edgar Hoover who collected the “files” on the politicians and blackmailed them at will.
“Gay” Edgar in turn had his own secrets which were kept by organized crime figures so he could be blackmailed.
This meant that organized crime had de facto control of the U.S. Congress at the time.
This was of course secret—national security dontyaknow (and the uninformed _still_ don’t know about it even though it is well documented.)
The question is—who is today’s J. Edgar Hoover and who is today’s organized crime.
Do we even know their names?
(Hint: I think not...)
“This in part is why the Trump victory is so amazing. Despite all this surveillance, they couldn’t come up with anything to really discredit him.”
I agree. I’ve always said that they were looking to figure out Trump’s strategy, so they could cut it off - but all they got was a disorganized mess that was all over the place, at least as far as they could tell.
But it actually wasn’t. What they observed was a candidate that actually related to most American voters...it was such a strange concept to the Dems that even when they asked their GOPe buddies, they also had no clue as to what was going on. So they gave up and simply figured that Trump would lose.
Everyone in politics is beholden to someone else who can destroy, except in the recent case of Bill Clinton. Both parties learned from that lesson, but no one saw Trump coming. Of course, he is not a politican.
Go Daddy
Excellent observation.
btt
The guy behind PRISM was one of Trump’s biggest donors.
Obama and friends abused the heck out of it for 8 yrs [after being against it when W was pres] but only after Trump won did they panic... because it’s no longer theirs to direct, and they know what they were willing to do with it and are projecting that onto Trump, thinking they know what they’d do in his shoes...
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