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In reply to the discussion: Report Indicates Snowden/Greenwald Lied About Key Claims [View all]sgtbenobo
(327 posts)Thank you Prosense. Now that you've shone everyone here how stupid and clueless we are I can finally go back to my kitten and porn quest. Now would you please just kindly saunter back to FreeRepublic so the rest of us can move on.
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Wyden, an Oregon Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee, has obliquely warned for months that the NSA's retention of Americans' communications incidentally collected and its ability to search through it has been far more extensive than intelligence officials have stated publicly. Speaking this week, Wyden told the Guardian it amounts to a "backdoor search" through Americans' communications data.
"Section 702 was intended to give the government new authorities to collect the communications of individuals believed to be foreigners outside the US, but the intelligence community has been unable to tell Congress how many Americans have had their communications swept up in that collection," he said
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Just keep telling yourself that everyone's wrong but you.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/09/nsa-loophole-warrantless-searches-email-calls
Carry on.