She remarked that social media have played a huge part in the investigation. The FBI has gathered over 30,000 social media messages of interest; Tweets; Facebook etc. in a ONE MILE RADIUS of the bombing locations.
This is a particularly interesting item. Did the Feebs (FBI) just go to Twitter and FB and ask, or did they use a true sopeona or some no-warrent request under Patriot Act? Or, maybe they just went to the CLOUD and hacked it? What's the name of the system that reads all our emails called again? SkyLink?
Um, maybe they just looked at Twitter and Facebook? It's public.
Nora. The NSA collects everything in case they need to comb over it later for just this occasion. FBI, CIA probably all have access on a case by case basis.
Carnivore?