Said it to congress, NO punishment. NOTHING. Why do we even HAVE a congress?
Posted on 04/25/2016 6:56:57 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Good for Snowden.
If Clapper doesn’t like it it is a good thing.
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Keep the damn terrorists out of the country in the first place, then you won’t have to worry about encryption.
Translation: “We can’t spy on tea-partiers.”
More positives than negs to e with Snowdenmon this one. Given the unconstitutional attitudes permeating fedgov.
It’s OK. Feinstein and Burr only want to stop US citizens from using encryption. They’re fine with Islamofascists using it.
Novel idea there. Probably why they aren’t doing that. :)
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That is the truth. The subversives sleep in the white hut and they seek to use the most sophisticated communications monitoring system in the world to monitor the patriots who will defend the nation.
Said it to congress, NO punishment. NOTHING. Why do we even HAVE a congress?
Remember when Obama (who always tells the truth) said “Nobody is listening to your calls”.
True. Not actively. It’s translated to text and mined by computer. Hit the right set of keywords and the data will be flagged for review.
Old, old technology from the Jimmy Carter days (the TRW satellites compromised in “The Falcon and the Snowman” were precursors).
We have them to name post offices...
Why is it good for him? He’s a prisoner of a dictator?
Yes, what Obama said was TECHNICALLY true. It was a lawyerly non-lie.
What Clapper stated was MUCH closer to a lie.
The non-NSA world understands “intercept” to mean a signal in transit has been recognized, received and stored, even if garners no immediate human scrutiny at all —the bar is low.
But NSA does keep it’s own professional lexicon:
At NSA “intercept” is has a very narrow, specific definition which DOES include human scrutiny —the bar for the same word is higher:
That slight of hand means Clapper CAN go up speak in “NSA-ese” to Congress, and have confidence that the meaning that pops up in the mind of the American public and their elected representative inquisitors is very different from that in his own.
The same word has two different meanings to two different groups, much life gift in America being a present and in Germany being poison.
Clapper really IS a liar, though a well-paid and unindicted one.
Why do you think the encryption is targeted to terrorists.
Why don't we just go over there and beat the crap out of them?
Then we don't have to worry about playing cat and mouse.
You don’t weaken people’s encryption to make your freaking job easier.
You do common sense work, including bugging suspects’ homes, to get real intelligence.
Any weakness put in place is a vulnerability China or criminals can exploit, as well.
[It was a lawyerly non-lie.]
That’s all I’ve come to expect from him and his direct employees.
you mean mooslims? right!
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