CIA Whistleblower Sentenced to 42 Months Based on Metadata
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/05/cia-whistleblower-sentenced-to-42-months-based-on-metadata.html
... a particularly disturbing element of the government’s successful case against CIA whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling, namely, that it was weak and depended almost entirely on circumstantial metadata evidence. That should give consumers pause about their casual attitude towards the government’s data hoovering: “Oh, there’s nothing they can see that is of interest.” As this story indicates, the officialdom was able to use inconclusive information as the basis of a narrative that worked in court.
If you think this will never happen to you think twice. Consider the story a few days ago in the New York Times about a Chinese employee of the National Weather Service who had her life turned upside down, and probably ruined. She was arrested, accused of being a Chinese spy, and had her case suddenly dropped a week before it was scheduled to go to trial. Merely knowing or meeting with the wrong people can get you caught in the surveillance state dragnet.
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