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In reply to the discussion: Fugitive Snowden's Hopes of Leaving Moscow Airport Dashed [View all]marions ghost
(19,841 posts)--ridiculous argument. And for SURE the NSA is keeping a low profile and would not disclose anything they don't have to.
You do not know for sure about the phone calls. None of us do. But some pretty sharp people have definite suspicions. So to go around saying they are NOT (caps) doing it is naive...
So then, what about PRISM--ie. all the other data from everywhere they can get their hands on. We do know a lot about that via the Guardian. Nobody in government is denying it. Notice that?
"NSA internal slides included in the disclosures purported to show that the NSA could unilaterally access data and perform "extensive, in-depth surveillance on live communications and stored information" with examples including email, video and voice chat, videos, photos, voice-over-IP chats (such as Skype), file transfers, and social networking details.[2] Snowden summarized that "in general, the reality is this: if an NSA, FBI, CIA, DIA, etc analyst has access to query raw SIGINT [signals intelligence] databases, they can enter and get results for anything they want." (Wiki)
But this is all OK with you, I guess.
Don't worry, be happy.