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Dianne Feinstein: 'I am totally opposed' to NSA surveillance of US allies
- te_platt 13y agoI'm a U.S. citizen. Do I count as an ally?
- mattkrea 13y agoHah, that's the funniest part of this. Back when I was watching CSPAN during all of the initial revelations Feinstein was totally into all of this horrible shit that is going on.. now that the rest of the world is upset she's suddenly up in arms about it.
- generj 13y agoThis is one of the major problems I have with NSA advocates. They constantly define the news/public as "the enemy" then are surprised when we are hostile towards them.
- cryptolect 13y ago"...but US citizens are just fine"
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- lurchpop 13y agoCitizens of allied countries who aren't political elites and US citizens are fair game though.
- a3n 13y agoShe's totally opposed to spying on foreign leaders, even though foreign leaders are in the class of targets that the NSA is specifically supposed to spy on; you know, foreigners. And she's totally OK with spying on US citizens, that class of targets that the NSA is specifically not supposed to be spying on. It's Bizarro Congress!
- 001sky 13y agoUnless the United States is engaged in hostilities against a country or there is an emergency need for this type of surveillance, I do not believe the United States should be collecting phone calls or emails of friendly <presidents and prime ministers>. The president should be required to approve any collection of this sort," Feinstein added. Interesting choice of words.
- bobsil1 13y agoLet's get her off the intelligence committee: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6630677 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6630677
- malandrew 13y agoI really hope these new bills to curtail surveillance also include provisions to delete already collected data out of line with the new laws.
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