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NSA loophole allows warrantless search for US citizens' emails and phone calls
UK Guardian ^ | August 9, 2013 | James Ball and Spencer Ackerman

Posted on 08/09/2013 9:48:59 AM PDT by don-o

Edited on 08/09/2013 10:03:10 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]

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To: null and void

Put me on the list or else!


41 posted on 08/09/2013 11:37:59 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: Black Agnes

Both halves please? Or else what?


42 posted on 08/09/2013 11:40:42 AM PDT by null and void (Some day your prints will come...)
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To: OneWingedShark

“Recent research has the number at 4.7 :(”

sarc
That’s good news for the tax payer. So the NSA doesn’t need larger computers.
sarc/

Always when i read articles in the newspapers about the new NSA computing facility in utah i think: It seems to be a good time to buy shares of computer storage manufactoring companies. :-(


43 posted on 08/09/2013 11:41:26 AM PDT by SgtBilko
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To: null and void

I’ll report you to the mods! And make a voodoo doll of a void and stick it with null pins.


44 posted on 08/09/2013 11:43:22 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: xzins

Terrorists order pizza to munch while plotting.

Anyone else who calls the same pizza parlor is one hop.

If any of them calls out for Chinese later that’s two hops.

Anyone else who called the same Chinese restaurant is three hops.


45 posted on 08/09/2013 11:45:01 AM PDT by null and void (Some day your prints will come...)
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To: Black Agnes

THANK YOU! I have eagerly been waiting for the day I could add you! Welcome aboard!


46 posted on 08/09/2013 11:46:06 AM PDT by null and void (Some day your prints will come...)
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To: don-o; All

“A chill wind is blowing in this nation. A message is being sent through the White House and its allies… If you oppose this administration, there can and will be ramifications.”

Tim Robbins
April 15, 2003


47 posted on 08/09/2013 12:09:27 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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48 posted on 08/09/2013 12:13:13 PM PDT by RedMDer (http://www.dontfundobamacare.com/)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

There’s no news here unless you(anybody) haven’t been paying attention for , oh, I dunno, maybe four decades. NSA has the gear to listen to almost anything. The actual limitation is that they can’t use warrantless search info in a prosecution. The question that needs to be asked of Obozo is “How do you keep from using overheard conversations/communications in a political campaign?” And “do you use this info in your own campaign?” And “have you-—”?


49 posted on 08/09/2013 12:49:04 PM PDT by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: cherokee1
The actual limitation is that they can’t use warrantless search info in a prosecution.

This can be sidestepped by parallel construction ad other methods.
Moreover, there is way too much potential for blackmail/extortion with these systems.

We need to disband the NSA and prosecute everyone who was working there, or contracted with them, for deprivation of rights under color of law, and conspiracy against rights.

Terrorist threats are less to be feared than exactly what our government is doing.

50 posted on 08/09/2013 1:01:35 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: cherokee1
There’s no news here unless you(anybody) haven’t been paying attention for , oh, I dunno, maybe four decades

I disagree, I am pretty attentive, and there are at least two things recently confirmed that are news to me.

1. The NSA spies on Americans when their mandate is Foreign.

2. That without a specific warrant the NSA has went beyond intercepting communications on public airwaves to actually collecting secure data from individuals and companies

51 posted on 08/09/2013 1:45:17 PM PDT by DBeers (†)
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To: Alas Babylon!

You are correct. It’s not as if terrorist infiltrators don’t eat pizza. And those “secret cells”...why they require by their nature that more than one degree of separation be used.

What we don’t have yet is a smoking gun admitting they’re using the “degrees of separation” scheme or something similar to it. At least I’ve not heard it yet.

But it only makes sense that they would use it, doesn’t it?


52 posted on 08/09/2013 1:52:55 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for their victory!)
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To: don-o

Now just a cotton pickin’ minit here. Let’s be fair. The White House Press Corp (sic) is only dead from the neck up, or pretends to be when it comes to stories that might harm their master. Its body is still alive and well, lying like a snake, manipulating people’s emotions, conditioning them not to think, and buy from their sponsors.


53 posted on 08/09/2013 2:26:41 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: b4its2late
b4its2late ~:" It’s because the voting public is asleep at the switch and too low information thanks to the democrats and their allies the media. including the entertainment media."

People who work for a living depend on the evening news for "NEWS" , .. not expecting propoganda .
The talking heads of evening news are just that : "talking heads", who are chosen based on their looks ,
demeanor , and enunciation and non-regional diction.
That is why when there is a replacement 'talking head' , it becomes big national news , in itself .

The daily and evening news and it's personalties are , in fact , entertainment ~ that is why for substance , go to foreign news sources.

54 posted on 08/09/2013 2:46:02 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt ((Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. -- James Madison))
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>> under a legal authority

That would be the charlatans in Congress granting this “legal authority.”

The NSA ain’t the boogeyman. It’s our neighbors we elect to represent us in DC.


55 posted on 08/09/2013 2:58:12 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: don-o


56 posted on 08/09/2013 3:42:35 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: don-o

The Constitution doesn’t.

Since when does the NSA usurp the Constitution?


57 posted on 08/09/2013 5:31:14 PM PDT by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: don-o

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- A number of allegedly healthy athletes have encountered severe health problems after using mucho booze and cocaine

- The first WH doc was sacked after warning Goofy of excessive boozing

- Good thing Goofy has never used cocaine.....

- Suicide is painless

- It brings on many changes

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58 posted on 08/09/2013 6:21:58 PM PDT by devolve (----- ----- ----- it not unlegal iffen I do*s it ----- ----- -----)
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To: EEGator

59 posted on 08/09/2013 6:49:07 PM PDT by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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To: don-o

They have legal authority to do something unconstitutional?


60 posted on 08/09/2013 7:44:55 PM PDT by freedomfiter2 (Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
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