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The NSA Says It Can't Search Its Own Email (not satire)
npr ^
| July 23, 2013
| Eyder Peralta
Posted on 07/23/2013 5:36:02 PM PDT by Drango
Over the past weeks, we have learned the National Security Agency has the capability to produced throughout the world.
Today, ProPublica reports that when it comes to parsing email sent by its own employees, the United States' spy agency does not have the technology for it.
At least that's what the investigative outfit said the NSA told them in response to a Freedom of Information Act request.
:
"'There's no central method to search an email at this time with the way our records are set up, unfortunately,' NSA Freedom of Information Act officer Cindy Blacker told me last week.
"The system is 'a little antiquated and archaic,' she added.
"I filed a request last week for emails between NSA employees and employees of the National Geographic Channel over a specific time period. The TV station had aired a on the NSA and I want to better understand the agency's public-relations efforts.
"A few days after filing the request, Blacker called, asking me to narrow my request since the FOIA office can search emails only 'person by person,' rather than in bulk. The NSA has more than .
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: benghazi; fastandfurious; foia; impeachnow; irs; napl; nsa; nsaemails; nsafoia
~snicker.
NPR and ProPublica are liberal scum. But this is funny....
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posted on
07/23/2013 5:36:02 PM PDT
by
Drango
To: Drango
Your “not satire” was way too mild a warning. Someone could choke and die reading this. The NSA has chutzpa.
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posted on
07/23/2013 5:48:20 PM PDT
by
Pollster1
("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
To: Drango
Yep. The system they have in place is to intimidate every business in the information sector to record everything and allow them access whenever they want to demand it.
Not unlike the City of Detroit, where they don't bother to send you a tax bill, they send you a notice of violation. You must now pay this amount by this date. OR ELSE! It doesn't say any swear words at all, you just feel them hidden in the fonts.
To: Pollster1
The NSA has chutzpa.
No, it just shows they are just another tone deaf megalomaniacal federal agency.
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posted on
07/23/2013 5:50:18 PM PDT
by
bioqubit
To: Drango
They should just ask the UK to check their records.
Freegards
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posted on
07/23/2013 5:52:59 PM PDT
by
Ransomed
To: Pollster1
maybe relabel as a “Bluffdale Alert”...
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posted on
07/23/2013 6:02:21 PM PDT
by
ptsal
(Repubicans swallowing more kool-aide from Rove & Kristol)
To: Drango
yeah, right...
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posted on
07/23/2013 6:03:56 PM PDT
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: Drango
Well, we always knew the terrorists were hiding at the NSA...
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posted on
07/23/2013 6:09:33 PM PDT
by
Hardraade
(http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Obama: the bearded lady of Muslim Brotherhood))
To: Slings and Arrows
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posted on
07/23/2013 6:14:23 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: Drango
It’s not funny. They are laughing at you and me. They think they are unassailable so are taunting us.
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posted on
07/23/2013 6:35:17 PM PDT
by
DManA
To: Drango
That old Star Trek episode: "
The Ultimate Computer"
The last line of dialog issued by the M5 computer:
This. Unit. Must. Die.
Beyooooop....
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posted on
07/23/2013 6:43:44 PM PDT
by
W.
(B. Franklin printed currency that said "TO COUNTERFEIT IS DEATH.' Can we put that on our ballots?)
To: All
They’re lying. Of course they can search their own email.
What they are saying is that
they simply aren’t going to.
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posted on
07/23/2013 6:57:18 PM PDT
by
Ferris
(Man will come to learn that galaxies are consciousness factories)
To: Ferris
Theyre lying. Of course they can search their own email.
Only someone who has no knowledge of the US Government and has never had a government e-mail address and how it works would automatically conclude they are lying.
I've never worked for the NSA, but I absolutely believe them on this.
To: Drango
The person presenting this NSA position is a damn LIAR!
I know first hand just how capable their search capabilities are.
The fact they are on secure, dedicated systems, with limited and controlled access, means that traceability is easier, not more difficult.
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posted on
07/23/2013 7:27:54 PM PDT
by
G Larry
(Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Psalms 109:8)
To: dayglored; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; martin_fierro; ...
Bullsh*t.
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posted on
07/23/2013 9:12:21 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Drango
Would they care to pull the other one? It has bells on it.
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posted on
07/23/2013 9:39:19 PM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Revenge is a dish best served with pinto beans and muffins)
To: Drango
I do not believe for one second that NSA can not search their own emails.
It is long past the point of believing statements coming out of the federal government.
I can't recall any statement on policy from the Serial Liar in the White House that wasn't an absolute lie.
IRS and NSA officials routinely lie to congressional committees.
With these brazen examples of dishonesty at the highest levels of government setting the example just when does society collapse?
Clearly this would satisfy the commie agenda.
The DC federal government is the most powerful crime syndicate in history because, unlike the Mafia, DC makes the laws for us, but they break their own laws with impunity when it serves their purpose, and We The People can not escape their reach.
This does not end well.
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posted on
07/24/2013 7:37:37 AM PDT
by
Amagi
(Buying "Green" means purchasing inferior quality at increased cost.)
To: Drango
“The system is ‘a little antiquated and archaic,’ she added.”
Not as antiquated and archaic as most small business computer set ups and I know that they can search their own emails.
This administration really counted on most Americans being incredibly stupid didn't they? Time and again they roll out statements that just floor me with how stupid they assumed we are.
If it weren't so awful for my beloved United States, I'd laugh and laugh....
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posted on
07/24/2013 7:43:11 AM PDT
by
MWestMom
(Psalms 109:8)
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