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NSA Intercepted Children’s Letters To Santa
http://www.duffelblog.com/2013/12/nsa-letters-to-santa/The National Security Agency routinely intercepts childrens letters to Santa, internal agency documents have revealed.
The documents describe an operation known as MILK COOKIES, based out of Fort Meade and run in conjunction with the U.S. Postal Service. COOKIES is the interception of the letters while MILK feeds them through a complex series of algorithms to spot any hidden messages.
Agency director Gen. Keith Alexander had previously testified to Congress in 2011 that the NSA would occasionally collect letters addressed to Santa, but insisted that it was totally accidental and that no one was actually reading or storing them.
The NSA is prohibited from directly monitoring American citizens under both Executive Order 12333 and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. However, because the letters are addressed to the North Pole, which falls outside of U.S. territory, they are considered potential foreign intelligence signals which the NSA is authorized to intercept.
Read more: http://www.duffelblog.com/2013/12/nsa-letters-to-santa/#ixzz2pH26EHT1
I THINK THIS IS TONGUE-IN-CHEEK SATIRE, BUT WHO CAN TELL, NOWADAYS?
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NSA Intercepted Children’s Letters To Santa (Original Post)
Demeter
Jan 2014
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dballance
(5,756 posts)1. definitely satire
Go to the homepage and read the other titles.
Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)2. I really hope it's satire
Nevertheless, the point of the satire is taken.
BridgeTheGap
(3,615 posts)3. This is funny. Reality is far more disturbing! n/t