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Everything they're doing is "legal" because they get to decide what is and isn't legal. That doesn't mean it's ethical or should be hidden from the American pu
by devmor 3y ago
Everything they're doing is "legal" because they get to decide what is and isn't legal.
That doesn't mean it's ethical or should be hidden from the American public.
- lern_too_spel 3y ago> Everything they're doing is "legal" because they get to decide what is and isn't legal No, phone metadata collection was ruled illegal. Ingesting court ordered FBI wiretaps on foreigners living outside the US who are of interest to national security has never been illegal in the US or in any other country. > That doesn't mean it's ethical or should be hidden from the American public. It isn't hidden from the American public. The documents describing the data ingested into PRISM have been declassified.
- colordrops 3y agoThe USG can't put cameras in my house and promise not to look at the video unless I'm a foreigner. That's what this amounts to. Why anyone would defend this is beyond me.
- lern_too_spel 3y agoIt can't put cameras in your house without a warrant if you live in the US period. If you're a foreigner living outside the US, you're fair game to the US. This is true for any country, not just the US. How anybody could fail to understand this is beyond me.