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The Latest Snowden Leak Is Devastating to NSA Defenders
Posted on 7/7/14 at 7:12 pm
Posted on 7/7/14 at 7:12 pm
According to the Atlantic and the Washington Post...
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Consider the latest leak sourced to Edward Snowden from the perspective of his detractors. The National Security Agency's defenders would have us believe that Snowden is a thief and a criminal at best, and perhaps a traitorous Russian spy. In their telling, the NSA carries out its mission lawfully, honorably, and without unduly compromising the privacy of innocents. For that reason, they regard Snowden's actions as a wrongheaded slur campaign premised on lies and exaggerations.
But their narrative now contradicts itself. The Washington Post's latest article drawing on Snowden's leaked cache of documents includes files "described as useless by the analysts but nonetheless retained" that "tell stories of love and heartbreak, illicit sexual liaisons, mental-health crises, political and religious conversions, financial anxieties and disappointed hopes. The daily lives of more than 10,000 account holders who were not targeted are catalogued and recorded nevertheless."
The article goes on to describe how exactly the privacy of these innocents was violated. The NSA collected "medical records sent from one family member to another, résumés from job hunters and academic transcripts of schoolchildren. In one photo, a young girl in religious dress beams at a camera outside a mosque. Scores of pictures show infants and toddlers in bathtubs, on swings, sprawled on their backs and kissed by their mothers. In some photos, men show off their physiques. In others, women model lingerie, leaning suggestively into a webcam ..."
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Ordinary Internet users, American and non-American alike, far outnumber legally targeted foreigners in the communications intercepted by the National Security Agency from U.S. digital networks, according to a four-month investigation by The Washington Post.
Nine of 10 account holders found in a large cache of intercepted conversations, which former NSA contractor Edward Snowden provided in full to The Post, were not the intended surveillance targets but were caught in a net the agency had cast for somebody else.
Many of them were Americans. Nearly half of the surveillance files, a strikingly high proportion, contained names, e-mail addresses or other details that the NSA marked as belonging to U.S. citizens or residents. NSA analysts masked, or “minimized,” more than 65,000 such references to protect Americans’ privacy, but The Post found nearly 900 additional e-mail addresses, unmasked in the files, that could be strongly linked to U.S. citizens or U.S.residents.
The surveillance files highlight a policy dilemma that has been aired only abstractly in public. There are discoveries of considerable intelligence value in the intercepted messages — and collateral harm to privacy on a scale that the Obama administration has not been willing to address.
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Posted on 7/7/14 at 7:15 pm to Sentrius
Any sensible person figured this was happening after the Snowden leaks came out. Only bootlickers defend this garbage (from either side)
Posted on 7/7/14 at 7:15 pm to Sentrius
am I the only person who thinks nobody is going to give a shite if all the victims have arabic names?
Let's face it. We are at war with Muslims, many of whom have arabic names.
Let's face it. We are at war with Muslims, many of whom have arabic names.
Posted on 7/7/14 at 7:16 pm to baybeefeetz
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am I the only person who thinks nobody is going to give a shite if all the victims have arabic names? Let's face it. We are at war with Muslims, many of whom have arabic names.
First they came for the browns......
Posted on 7/7/14 at 7:21 pm to Sentrius
The NSA is made up of the same voyeuristic people that make up our country. They obtain and hold on to shite they find entertaining. Maybe they could have their own reality TV show!
On second thought, they need to be held accountable. Agency needs to be burned to the ground.
On second thought, they need to be held accountable. Agency needs to be burned to the ground.
Posted on 7/7/14 at 7:39 pm to Paluka
Power corrupts. When they pony up the Lerner emails to the WH...then I'll be back on the Government is good reservation. Won't hold my breath until it happens.
Posted on 7/7/14 at 7:41 pm to RCDfan1950
It would be beyond epic if Snowden found the Lerner emails.
Posted on 7/7/14 at 7:42 pm to Sentrius
I ain't got nothin' t'hide so I don't care! /sarcasm
Posted on 7/7/14 at 7:44 pm to Sentrius
YooHoo Decatur where are you!
Posted on 7/7/14 at 7:48 pm to MSCoastTigerGirl
That would dominate.
Posted on 7/7/14 at 7:53 pm to Sentrius
Off topic: I wonder if Snowden has any NSA info regarding UFOs
Posted on 7/7/14 at 7:56 pm to Da Sheik
I bet he does.
Bill Clinton admitted that they wouldn't tell him shite about UFO's.
Bill Clinton admitted that they wouldn't tell him shite about UFO's.
Posted on 7/7/14 at 8:00 pm to MSCoastTigerGirl
Well, I'd like to hear it - I'm constantly on the fence whether these critters exits.
Posted on 7/7/14 at 8:05 pm to cwill
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I ain't got nothin' t'hide so I don't care! /sarcasm
My protection is I am boring as shite so if they try snooping on me they'll just fall asleep.
Posted on 7/7/14 at 8:06 pm to Jbird
When is the supposed last big leak gonna happen?
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