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Jeffersons Ghost

(15,235 posts) Tue Sep 24, 2013, 12:43 AM Sep 2013

While it won't get the NSA much funding, here's the GOOD NEWS about their eavesdropping

Someone is watching and listening to every backroom deal and compromise with foreign powers our Congress-critters and Senators make in Washington D.C. Guess who is watching them.

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While it won't get the NSA much funding, here's the GOOD NEWS about their eavesdropping (Original Post) Jeffersons Ghost Sep 2013 OP

Whether or not that's "good news" depends on who's directing the watching and how/when winter is coming Sep 2013 #1

They'll probably share the information with the FBI Jeffersons Ghost Sep 2013 #2

The people watching them are the people who set up the system, who made the laws, delrem Sep 2013 #3

winter is coming

(11,785 posts)

1. Whether or not that's "good news" depends on who's directing the watching and how/when

Reply to Jeffersons Ghost (Original post)

Tue Sep 24, 2013, 12:46 AM

Sep 2013

they will/won't use that information.

Jeffersons Ghost

(15,235 posts)

2. They'll probably share the information with the FBI

Reply to winter is coming (Reply #1)

Tue Sep 24, 2013, 12:50 AM

Sep 2013

Then, the FBI Director can order the same remedy for Obama J Edgar Hoover ordered for JFK.

delrem

(9,688 posts)

3. The people watching them are the people who set up the system, who made the laws,

Reply to Jeffersons Ghost (Original post)

Tue Sep 24, 2013, 03:40 AM

Sep 2013

the people who overturned older laws, and who have total information control.

Not YOU!

Don't even for a moment suppose that the new NSA facilities going online now are to benefit someone so poorly as YOU.
Insiders only, PLEASE (hehe - I love it even to pretend that I'm an agent for these 100% total despots...)

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