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| Authored by: jezevans on Monday, June 10 2013 @ 03:20 PM EDT |
Post corrections here. In the title try to give a hint about the error such as
wrong->right or s/wrong/right/ [ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: jezevans on Monday, June 10 2013 @ 03:21 PM EDT |
| Put your Off Topic stuff here. Use links if you can. [ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: jezevans on Monday, June 10 2013 @ 03:22 PM EDT |
Post your newspicks here with a link to the story and some sort of reference in
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| Authored by: jezevans on Monday, June 10 2013 @ 03:22 PM EDT |
| Post Comes transcriptions here - you're officially wonderful if you do. [ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: Jaywalk on Monday, June 10 2013 @ 03:31 PM EDT |
The FISC maintains this operational secrecy because, unlike any
other court, its “entire docket relates to the collection of foreign
intelligence by the federal government. But they're deliberately
collecting phone information between US citizens. The defense that the "entire
docket" is about foreign intelligence doesn't hold water. The only way phone
calls between US citizens who do not call abroad are a matter for "foreign
intelligence" is if you assume some sort of six-degrees-of-separation argument
where the person may call someone who calls someone who calls abroad.
But
then, where are the boundaries? Doesn't that put pretty much everything in this
court's purview?
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- Foreign intelligence - Authored by: stegu on Monday, June 10 2013 @ 04:45 PM EDT
- Dear US.gov - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 11 2013 @ 12:03 AM EDT
- Anonymity - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 11 2013 @ 04:19 AM EDT
- Anonymity - Authored by: PJ on Tuesday, June 11 2013 @ 04:57 AM EDT
- Dear US.gov - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 11 2013 @ 02:41 PM EDT
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| Authored by: BsAtHome on Monday, June 10 2013 @ 03:38 PM EDT |
The whole FISA thingy looks like:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
/Star_Chamber
The US seems to have become the personification of the
state they once declared independence upon.
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SCOop of the day [ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 10 2013 @ 03:45 PM EDT |
For those like myself who got confused:
FISA = Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act (US government)
FISC = Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Court
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| Authored by: Yossarian on Monday, June 10 2013 @ 10:42 PM EDT |
"What right did they have?"
"Catch-22. [...] Catch-22 says they have a right to do
anything we can't stop them from doing. [...] What
does it mean, Catch-22? What is Catch-22?"
"Didn't they show it to you?" Yossarian demanded,
stamping about in anger and distress. "Didn't you even make
them read it?"
"They don't have to show us Catch-22," the old woman
answered. "The law says they don't have to."
"What law says they don't have to?"
"Catch-22." [...]
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- Catch 22 - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 11 2013 @ 05:50 AM EDT
- Catch 22 - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 17 2013 @ 04:55 AM EDT
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 10 2013 @ 11:01 PM EDT |
The shameful secret that has to be kept is for all the $zillions
spent
trawling everybody's stuff they pretend that it's beneath their station
to
catch the guys they can see in plain daylight
flogging used iTunes accounts for $5, who do more damage to the US
economy every day than all the terrorists caught so far.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 11 2013 @ 09:51 PM EDT |
| Mike Gerwitz has put together a nice page summarizing the recent NSA-related
leaks and putting them in the proper context:
National Uproar: A Comprehensive Overview of
the NSA Leaks and Revelations
Its a good read, and a timely reminder of
some of the unfortunate things the American government has been doing without
the awareness or informed consent of its population. [ Reply to This | # ]
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