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In reply to the discussion: Plame and Wilson: The NSA's metastasised intelligence-industrial complex is ripe for abuse [View all]Harmony Blue
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Plame and Wilson: The NSA's metastasised intelligence-industrial complex is ripe for abuse [View all]
muriel_volestrangler
Jun 2013
OP
Which is why openly discussing such programs before implementation is important.
Pholus
Jun 2013
#12
Have you seen the imaginary bullshit going on right here? It's right here in this thread.
KittyWampus
Jun 2013
#106
Who is smearing them? They get to the point -I- make which is the import of attacking privatization
KittyWampus
Jun 2013
#105
"We are now dealing with a vast intelligence-industrial complex that is largely unaccountable..."
Pholus
Jun 2013
#108
This is like ones brain, we don't know how it works but most of us use our brains. Many don't know
Thinkingabout
Jun 2013
#14
So your stance is "I always trust my government, they always get it right"?
muriel_volestrangler
Jun 2013
#15
You are not reading properly or you are putting your own spin on what I posted. You may not know
Thinkingabout
Jun 2013
#18
No, I'm more concerned than ever that you will allow a government to do anything
muriel_volestrangler
Jun 2013
#21
Were you keeping up with events when the Patriot Act was passed? If the senators did not know this
Thinkingabout
Jun 2013
#24
" Wiretapping has been occurring for years also, this is not new, and requires a warrant."
rhett o rick
Jun 2013
#37
It was abused, ergo Patriot Act to provide oversight and FISA Court was to decide on request
Thinkingabout
Jun 2013
#39
You are telling me there is a law, and I am telling you it looks like the law is being ABUSED.
rhett o rick
Jun 2013
#40
WTH, if the issue is the warrant then you dont have an issue, this was issued in FISA court. Dont
Thinkingabout
Jun 2013
#44
Doubted your knowledge of the warrant, you talked a big talk but you could not produce evidence
Thinkingabout
Jun 2013
#56
I read the warrant. It violates both the FISA law and the Constitution. The Constitution, you know
rhett o rick
Jun 2013
#58
You should be really pissed at Snowden for spying on your phone call records anjust might have those
Thinkingabout
Jun 2013
#60
How ironic that you would say Snowden didnt have a warrant. He had the protection of the same
rhett o rick
Jun 2013
#64
How ironic Snowden went to a news media to reveal information. If the Fourth Amendment requires a
Thinkingabout
Jun 2013
#72
So you think every employee/contractor of the NSA needs a warrant to simply do their job?
cui bono
Jun 2013
#75
NSA has a warrant to collect records, when Snowden re harvested the data from NSA then he needed a
Thinkingabout
Jun 2013
#96
His job was to spy on American. That's what Booz Allen does. If you torture and kill him
rhett o rick
Jun 2013
#93
His job was not to reveal information of the operation and of the information collected by NSA which
Thinkingabout
Jun 2013
#97
Everyone gave up their 'freedom' as soon as they started handing out their information to everyone
railsback
Jun 2013
#70
No. Handing out your info to corporations for marketing is completely different than
cui bono
Jun 2013
#76
Yes, indeed. And if DU'ers would get over themselves, they'd see this is the angle of attack.
KittyWampus
Jun 2013
#107
Agree...the Privatization scheme makes more room for Mischief and outright Plundering
KoKo
Jun 2013
#32
Agreed. So why are we defending corporate persons from the questions we need to ask Snowden & others
patrice
Jun 2013
#52
Yeah, you probably think The PATRIOT Act is used to go after drug users, too.
Warren DeMontague
Jun 2013
#57