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NSA admits listening to U.S. phone calls without warrants | Politics and Law - CNET News

Posted by gwcalvert 11 years, 5 months ago to Government

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National Security Agency discloses in secret Capitol Hill briefing that thousands of analysts can listen to domestic phone calls. That authorization appears to extend to e-mail and text messages too.

SOURCE URL: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57589495-38/nsa-admits-listening-to-u.s-phone-calls-without-warrants/

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Posted by khalling 11 years, 5 months ago

so it's the President's word against the Representative's word.
so far, the facts are supporting Snowden's remarks, what will happen to this Rep. now that he's leaked classified briefing intell?

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  Posted by ogr8bearded1 11 years, 5 months ago
  
  he did ask if the information was 'classified in any way' before he revealed it. The way it looks now, you have some departments of the government working within the Constitution openly and other departments who are clearly working outside of their authority and feel its okay as long as its kept 'secret' Seems to me they got unlucky and Snowden decided the Constitution trumped a secrecy oath that violated the law. I'd say this falls under a soldier not following an illegal order.
  
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    Posted by khalling 11 years, 5 months ago
    
    that's how I see it. But of course if they can get him, they will make a lesson of him to others.
    why was it called "secret briefing" then?
    
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      Posted by Rocky_Road 11 years, 5 months ago
      
      I suspect anything from Washington to be propaganda, and meant for us to have.
      
      Misdirection is the secret of any good magician, and a requirement to be in government.
      
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Posted by ogr8bearded1 11 years, 5 months ago

Maybe it was just tin hat stuff when I was a kid in the mid 70s, but the story was back then that the NSA had a programme that searched for 'keywords' in all phone conversations and alerted someone to listen if one was found. Anyone else ever hear the same thing long ago?

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  Posted by Rocky_Road 11 years, 5 months ago
  
  Short answer: I don't think so.
  
  But our first phone was a 'party' line, and our calls had a distinct ring. We could pick the phone up and listen to the other family's calls, and they could listen to ours. Does that count? ;-)
  
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