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NSA collects millions of e-mail address books globally
Washington Post ^

Posted on 10/14/2013 4:19:54 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55

The National Security Agency is harvesting hundreds of millions of contact lists from personal e-mail and instant messaging accounts around the world, many of them belonging to Americans, according to senior intelligence officials and top secret documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: addressbooks; adressbooks; edwardsnowden; emails; nsa; nsascandal; snowden
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1 posted on 10/14/2013 4:19:54 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: ConservativeMan55

Drip, drip drip.


2 posted on 10/14/2013 4:20:29 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55 (In America, we don't do pin pricks. But sometimes we elect them.)
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To: ConservativeMan55

Glad I don’t ever use address books.


3 posted on 10/14/2013 4:33:38 PM PDT by montag813 (NO AMNESTY * ENFORCE THE LAW * http://StandWithArizona.com)
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To: ConservativeMan55

Maybe they’ve went a bit overboard——

The volume of NSA contacts collection is so high that it has occasionally threatened to overwhelm storage repositories, forcing the agency to halt its intake with “emergency detasking” orders. Three NSA documents describe short-term efforts to build an “across-the-board technology throttle for truly heinous data” and longer-term efforts to filter out information that the NSA does not need.


4 posted on 10/14/2013 4:36:21 PM PDT by John W (Viva Cristo Rey!)
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To: ConservativeMan55

I have figured out a fun way to freep the WaPo. It worked fantastically well this morning, taking my comment to the top to be read by thousands of angry liberals. Here is my new comment on the thread:

“Comrades, do not naysay the critical work of the State Security Services! NSA is vital cog in IRS-NSA-ACA data hubs. The SSS must be able to track down reactionary running dog capitalists who oppose our Dear Leader Comrade Obama, as he struggles day and night to deliver first-quality National Socialist heath rationing system to all good comrades, (like in glorious worker’s paradise Cuba), while smashing right-wing extremists who hold to outdated notions of so-called “freedom” and “privacy” and “Bill of Rights” under former capitalist “Constitution.” Onward to victory, comrades! Do not deny SSS needed tools to deliver glorious new dawn of socialist equality to all good comrades!”


5 posted on 10/14/2013 4:38:14 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: ConservativeMan55

I have figured out a fun way to freep the WaPo. It worked fantastically well this morning, taking my comment to the top to be read by thousands of angry liberals. Here is my new comment on the thread:

“Comrades, do not naysay the critical work of the State Security Services! NSA is vital cog in IRS-NSA-ACA data hubs. The SSS must be able to track down reactionary running dog capitalists who oppose our Dear Leader Comrade Obama, as he struggles day and night to deliver first-quality National Socialist heath rationing system to all good comrades, (like in glorious worker’s paradise Cuba), while smashing right-wing extremists who hold to outdated notions of so-called “freedom” and “privacy” and “Bill of Rights” under former capitalist “Constitution.” Onward to victory, comrades! Do not deny SSS needed tools to deliver glorious new dawn of socialist equality to all good comrades!”


6 posted on 10/14/2013 4:38:22 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

hahahaha


7 posted on 10/14/2013 4:39:48 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55 (In America, we don't do pin pricks. But sometimes we elect them.)
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To: montag813

No problem for the NSA. They build your address book on the fly and after the fact based on the emails you send/receive. The formal address books are just a nice short cut for them.


8 posted on 10/14/2013 4:44:26 PM PDT by steve86 (Some things aren't really true but you wouldn't be half surprised if they were.)
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To: ConservativeMan55

hope the have all the fake ones I have made since 94, maybe they can tell me all the passwords too.


9 posted on 10/14/2013 4:48:48 PM PDT by hadaclueonce (dont worry about Mexico, put the fence around kalifornia.)
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To: ConservativeMan55

With my personal email address, I’m always open to sexy emails from lady spies - especially those which include photos.


10 posted on 10/14/2013 4:51:00 PM PDT by Jack Hammer (American)
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(from the article);"By contrast, the NSA draws on authority in the Patriot Act for its bulk collection of domestic phone records, and it gathers online records from U.S. Internet companies, in a program known as PRISM, under powers granted by Congress in the FISA Amendments Act. Those operations are overseen by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said in August that the committee has less information about,
and conducts less oversight of, intelligence-gathering that relies solely on presidential authority. (Emphaisis mine )

You have to be freakin kidding me !!
Giving him dictatorial Power ... the ONE who has already overreached !

Dereliction of duty , incomeptance , and violation of oath of Office come immediately to mind !!


11 posted on 10/14/2013 4:53:02 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt (Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. -- James Madison)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt
Dear NSA :
My paasword is : FUBAR ! Have a nice FUBAR day !
12 posted on 10/14/2013 4:55:16 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt (Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. -- James Madison)
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To: ConservativeMan55
The government's uses of metadata and social networks. Is it already too late? Consider:

Using Metadata to Find Paul Revere

The NSA has been creating maps of American citizens' social networks

How they will come for you. How They Hunt

13 posted on 10/14/2013 4:55:39 PM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Is John's moustache long enough YET?)
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To: Jack Hammer
Hey Jack, that sexy lady is really a guy tranny ,with a 5 o'clock shadow!
Just remember :
When it comes to spooks and spies , nothing is CONCIDENCE !
14 posted on 10/14/2013 4:59:25 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt (Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. -- James Madison)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Ouch! Yes, you’re probably right.


15 posted on 10/14/2013 5:16:55 PM PDT by Jack Hammer (American)
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To: ConservativeMan55

It’s now #1 with about 3X the likes of the next comment. Freeping the WaPo!


16 posted on 10/14/2013 5:37:07 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: ConservativeMan55

These people are gonna rue the day we get THEIR addresses.

Home and office preferrably.


17 posted on 10/14/2013 5:38:14 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Travis McGee

LOL! Magnificient! A Rosetta stone -—a workable template for all occasions.


18 posted on 10/14/2013 5:41:38 PM PDT by thouworm (Harry Reid: 'We Support the Federal government. That's Our Job. That's What We Do.')
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To: ConservativeMan55

We all know the reaction the MSM, ACLU, Dems, etc. would be having if Bush were president. They worship everything King Barry Obama does.


19 posted on 10/14/2013 5:43:49 PM PDT by matt04
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

“Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee,”

That statement alone, is a kidney-busting laugher.

On second thought, it really isn’t very funny.


20 posted on 10/14/2013 5:45:18 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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