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Does this mean I was right? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5843051 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5843051 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=58430

• rdl 13y ago
  Probably, although IMO this was pretty obvious from the $20mm budget. The only question was "is it a repurposing of the existing law enforcement API" or something slightly unique, and was it "Google/FB in the loop" or totally automated. NSA presumably wouldn't want most Google employees to know they're FISAing info on KSM. They may be willing to read in a few Google employees to handle turning over the data, though. There may be some special magic to hide the actual target from Google while Google still gets to review the order itself. (the name of the target is presumably non-meaningful to Google).