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It's time for another Snowden-style leak to learn about all their new toys.
by Black101 5y ago
It's time for another Snowden-style leak to learn about all their new toys.
- whatshisface 5y agoWhat it's time for is a change to the laws so that informing the public about what their public servants have been up to can be accomplished without fleeing the country afterwards.
- im_down_w_otp 5y agoWhat's the enforcement mechanism for these laws? Who compels who to do what?
- Black101 5y agoI think that they have ultimate power and they even trump the constitution...
- whatshisface 5y agoOnly in the sense that any person has unlimited power and the ability to trump the constitution, insofar as they're not caught or not stopped if caught.
- nl 5y agoThey are just normal federal laws: > The United States does not have a British-style Official Secrets Act; instead, several laws protect classified information, including the Espionage Act of 1917, the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 and the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982.[1] The ALCU has a bunch of work[2] on this if you want to dig deeper. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classified_information_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classified_information_in_the_... [2] https://www.aclu.org/issues/national-security/secrecy https://www.aclu.org/issues/national-security/secrecy