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There's apparently a heavy media blitz right now to rally support for this passage: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/28/u-s-used-contentious-surveillance-

There's apparently a heavy media blitz right now to rally support for this passage: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/28/u-s-used-contentious-surveillance-power-to-disrupt-irans-weapons-program-00128781 https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/28/u-s-used-contentiou... ("US used its Section 702 spy tool to disrupt Iran’s weapons program") - "In recent months, U.S. officials have increasingly been disclosing examples of how Section 702 has been used to protect national security, including thwarting the flow of fentanyl through the southern border and identifying the hacker behind a 2021 ransomware attack that crippled one of the country’s largest fuel pipelines."

pixl97 3y ago
Not sure if you've watched the series "Rabbit Hole", but your post sounds like the kind of law the show is mimicking.
ganzuul 3y ago
Thwarting it...? Isn't that still a national disaster in the US?
- seanw444 3y ago
  Thwarting-in-progress. They need take our privacy for an indefinite amount of time until the problem is solved, you see.
  - sgift 3y ago
    Yeah. With just a tiiiiiiiiiiny bit more privacy restrictions they can do it. Would you really deny these puppy eyes that? Just a tiny bit, as a treat! ... It's so insidious. So wrong, so useless.
    - tru3_power 3y ago
      Sounds like someone has something to hide. /s
- hedora 3y ago
  According to the DEA in 2020, domestically-produced raw product gets shipped to Mexico to be turned into pills, and then sent back to the US. That pretty much always uses the southern border, while Chinese imports came in via the Pacific and the Southern border: https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2020-03/DEA_GOV_DIR-008-20%20Fentanyl%20Flow%20in%20the%20United%20States_0.pdf https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2020-03/DEA_GOV_DIR-... Presumably, if it was effective, that would mean their crackdown either moved pill packaging jobs from Mexico to the US or it off-shored production to China.
radicaldreamer 3y ago
If fentanyl is the example they're going with, they should shut the program down since it's completely ineffective

pixl97 3y ago

Not sure if you've watched the series "Rabbit Hole", but your post sounds like the kind of law the show is mimicking.

ganzuul 3y ago

Thwarting it...? Isn't that still a national disaster in the US?

seanw444 3y ago
Thwarting-in-progress. They need take our privacy for an indefinite amount of time until the problem is solved, you see.
- sgift 3y ago
  Yeah. With just a tiiiiiiiiiiny bit more privacy restrictions they can do it. Would you really deny these puppy eyes that? Just a tiny bit, as a treat! ... It's so insidious. So wrong, so useless.
  - tru3_power 3y ago
    Sounds like someone has something to hide. /s
hedora 3y ago
According to the DEA in 2020, domestically-produced raw product gets shipped to Mexico to be turned into pills, and then sent back to the US. That pretty much always uses the southern border, while Chinese imports came in via the Pacific and the Southern border: https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2020-03/DEA_GOV_DIR-008-20%20Fentanyl%20Flow%20in%20the%20United%20States_0.pdf https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2020-03/DEA_GOV_DIR-... Presumably, if it was effective, that would mean their crackdown either moved pill packaging jobs from Mexico to the US or it off-shored production to China.

radicaldreamer 3y ago

If fentanyl is the example they're going with, they should shut the program down since it's completely ineffective