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In reply to the discussion: Dianne Feinstein Accidentally Confirms That NSA Tapped The Internet Backbone [View all]Hydra
(14,459 posts)2. Silence was their best weapon on this
Once it went public in a way that couldn't be stifled, it was over. The more they talk, the more we know...mostly because they never planned to have to defend against this. They just did it and assumed they could keep doing it forever, even as they have been using the "secret evidence" or parallel intel to put people in jail.
"We're just too cool to be questioned..."
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kpete
Sep 2013
OP
The problem they have is that they never will make whistle-blowers extinct.
rhett o rick
Sep 2013
#20
I think we are close to a terrible tipping point. I think the NSA is at some point going
rhett o rick
Sep 2013
#21
They dont really have to have anything on Pres Obama. They just have to explain to
rhett o rick
Sep 2013
#31
You have to look behind the pictures to see what's really going on... n/t
PoliticAverse
Sep 2013
#22
"Upstream from the backbone" is venacular for the NSA taps into CALEA-compliant switches.
leveymg
Sep 2013
#26
Deja DU: This information was on DU a long time ago. We have known this all along.
Coyotl
Sep 2013
#28
Dianne Feinstein has no more idea than a two-year-old about what goes on with the internet.
JDPriestly
Sep 2013
#30
I bet we will find "pole dancing" in her past. Not that there is anything wrong with that. nm
rhett o rick
Sep 2013
#36