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I really don't get it. I read the court order to Verizon. All it says is "you are to give us all your data". There are no individual cases, there are no NSA peo
by revelation 13y ago
I really don't get it. I read the court order to Verizon.
All it says is "you are to give us all your data". There are no individual cases, there are no NSA people identified. There is not a single bit of any identifying information anywhere to be found.
The nerve of some people. How you can defend classifying the mere fact that NSA was granted access to Verizon data from a court? What possible "damage to national security" could there be?
The only damage here is that the government looks like a bunch of lawless thugs, and to expose that we created transparency laws and classification systems in the first place. That is the one reason out there that is completely invalid for classifying something.
- Shivetya 13y agoI would have thought the IRS scandal enough to make the government look like a bunch of lawless thugs. In truth they aren't lawless thugs, they are the thugs who write the laws necessary to allow their desires.
- betterunix 13y agoThere are two ways to view this: 1. By letting them know how we collect intelligence, they will find ways to evade us. 2. By letting Americans know that we are spying on them, we risk a backlash and possible budget cuts. I suspect that both of these were going through the heads of high-ranking decision makers at the NSA (and the FBI and the DEA).