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This same platform (SHENANIGANS) developed by the NSA that is deployed by the CIA aboard drones to locate individuals for targeted strikes. I generally support

• atmosx 12y ago
  > I generally support the mission of the US intelligence community, but it seems my greatest fear is coming true: domestic law enforcement wants to play with the cool toys too. OMG who would EVER thought that something like this would happen?????? I'm so shocked!!!! Maybe they need to just keep with the times... Yes that's it, no need to worry.
• javert 12y ago
  > I generally support the mission of the US intelligence community We no longer have the freedoms the US intelligence community is supposed to be defending. They have already failed us. edit: Sure, we have some freedoms, but they are vestigial. In principle, we do not. This is obvious with respect to not being subject to warrantless search and seizure: we officially live in an Orwellian surveillance society. But our freedoms are (less obviously) withering in all other areas as well.
• pXMzR2A 12y ago
  > my greatest fear is coming true: domestic law enforcement wants to play with the cool toys too. Actually, the usual pattern is: surveillance and security systems are first tested abroad, then are imported into the homeland. So this is not really "domestic law enforcement wants to play" but the conclusion of a progression that is part of a regular historical pattern.