Reply #1: kumbaya

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Here's the test for me:

If you can't answer the simplest question like, "who'd ya surveille", "is anyone previously surveilled exempt from future surveillance and are the phone companies therefore exempt from related lawsuits", and "did you name your entire subscriber base as subject to surveillance" and therefore you can still conduct it against those individuals without fear of being sued under grandfathering provisions"? Simple questions any goddamn lawyer should have asked or known the answer to.

Now, I can only imagine that if they aren't required to tell you if they observed you in the past then probably they aren't required to in the future. This goes way beyond looking for vocal concordances of "bomb" (the mediterranean word for bomb is falafel) since everybody KNOWS all terrorists do their planning in English and speak clearly for the microphone.

Jeepers. And we trust the DHS to be smart enough to catch a pooperscooper violator? They're fucking idiots.

And ya know, Obama can't answer those questions. Oh yes, time will tell and we'll review it a year from now, yadda yadda. Obama made a bonehead stupid fucking choice on this, and before any idiot swings in from the rafters throwing monkey poop - my flamethrower is full and lit. Move along.