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2017-12-08 -Lurid Crime Tales-

U.S. spy chief orders changes in 'unmasking' policy

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-12-08 07:45|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 Someone thinks someone else may be around in 2020 and doesn't want that game played back at them.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-12-08 09:15|| 2017-12-08 09:15|| Front Page Top

#2 This needs Congress to pass a law. Short of that, anything one “top official” orders, his successor can order differently — as, indeed, happened in this case.

Posted by trailing wife 2017-12-08 10:41|| 2017-12-08 10:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Just prior to leaving office the Obama administration allowed the NSA to share information from its vast international surveillance apparatus with the 16 other agencies that make up the U.S. intelligence community. Couple that with ginned up, bought fake dossiers to take to the FISA court to obtain warrants and "Unmasking" is blessed with the aura of legality and the info can be shared across all intelligence agencies. That seems to me to be a problem that skirts the 4th Amendment. Thank you Obama for your diabolical and scurrilous "fundamental transformation" (sarc on).

Posted by JohnQC 2017-12-08 10:53|| 2017-12-08 10:53|| Front Page Top

#4 BTW, how many terrorists have been rounded up because of this snooping? Didn't do any good to prevent Las Vega, Boston bombing, San Bernadino, Orlando, or Ft. Hood.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-12-08 10:57|| 2017-12-08 10:57|| Front Page Top

#5 It was a targeted snooping, JohnQC, and terrorists were not the targets.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-12-08 12:11|| 2017-12-08 12:11|| Front Page Top

#6 BTW, how many terrorists have been rounded up because of this snooping? Didn't do any good to prevent Las Vega, Boston bombing, San Bernadino, Orlando, or Ft. Hood ?

A question that should be asked at the highest levels of gov't, and often.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-12-08 12:14|| 2017-12-08 12:14|| Front Page Top

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