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One feels that Paul doesn't quite have a full grasp of the techniques he's describing (and it sounds like he's conflating a lot of stuff that Snowden leaked), b
by strictnein 10y ago
One feels that Paul doesn't quite have a full grasp of the techniques he's describing (and it sounds like he's conflating a lot of stuff that Snowden leaked), but that headline sure gets the clicks, so let's go with it. Especially since it's Greenwald, who uses Paul's jumbled mess of an explanation to burn everything down.
Doesn't even make sense what he's proposing:
Instead of getting a warrant to record the American, the NSA targets the foreigner? But what if they call someone else overseas? Or call people in the US? Seems like a really suboptimal way of targeting someone. And a low-level employee could unmask the caller? Sure, and that could also lead to that employee getting fired and prosecuted. I can access lots of data at work, but I would be shown the door and possibly sued if I did so.
- rosser 10y agoParaphrasing Donald Rumsfeld, "You spy on your own people within the legal regime you've got, not the one you wish you had."
- strictnein 10y agoYou can legally tap phones of Americans in a far less convoluted way than what Rand Paul attempted to describe.