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We didn't just had evidence. There was a huge political debate about warrent-less wiretapping during the Bush administration. Public debate, laws were passed, t
by rhino369 12y ago
We didn't just had evidence. There was a huge political debate about warrent-less wiretapping during the Bush administration. Public debate, laws were passed, the whole 9 yards.
In fact the big snowden shocker turned out to be bullshit. The report that the NSA had direct access to facebook and gmail. Turns out that was just a misinterpretation of a powerpoint slide.
The only new and important info Snowden leaked was the metadata from phone companies that included everyone.
- throwaway2048 12y agopeople are still repeating the "its only metadata" line?
- pyre 12y agoHow about how we give a direct, unfiltered feed to Israel with a "promise" to discard things like emails between US government officials that accidentally make it in there? Seems like a sound practice to me! The Israelis would never break the terms of such a contract!