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nce authority must be destroyed they outline policies approved by the u s foreign intelligence surveillance court that let the nsa while monitoring the phone or email of a foreign diplomat or a suspected terrorist keep an intercept if it contains information deemed to be a threat of serious harm to life or property or if it sheds light on technical issues like encryption or vulnerability to cyberattacks the policies also let the nsa keep foreign intelligence information contained within attorney client communications one documents says so it seems to me there are three issues here the metadata issue where all the records of our calls and emails sans content is vacuumed up by the nsa the privacy of americans communications which is certainly compromised when they can get easily swept up when they intermingle with furriners the controls transparency that protect us from abuses in 2 i think 1 above has already been lost and it concerns me less than 2 i think 2 is very problematic and not just because i have a sister in paris although the full content of our phone calls is usually can you turn on your computer so we can skype to call this program transparent is a stretch and i don t think anyone in their right mind trusts the controls that are in place edward snowden more on him later claimed he listened to some celebrity communications to prove he could and he didn t even work for the u s government and while i d like to believe he s lying what seems far more likely is that the capability to actually spy on americans exists at the workstations of far too many nsa contractors much less employees and the control is that they will theoretically get an extended paid vacation in leavenworth if they get caught however much as i think that the legal part of 2 is at the very least unconstitutional most of this country clearly bought this burglar alarm after the house was robbed september 11th 2001 and is only now noticing that the fine print says you can t ever get out of the contract never mind that quite a few of us wanted to opt out but couldn t in short what obama says is technically true but not terribly reassuring the good that can come of this is more stuff gets declassified because as i have said the notion that terrorists and foreign actors don t already know that the u s and for that matter virtually every first world country can listen in on your phone calls is ludicrous as for mr snowden i mentioned before that he lost a lot of my sympathy when he started talking about operations of the nsa that were directed at foreign governments revelations that come closer to treason than whistle blowing the only thing that would make him less sympathetic would be if he were to alight to a country that has been a traditional geopolitical foe of the united states perhaps one with an almost cartoonishly anti democratic leader as if on cue edward snowden a former contractor for the national security agency charged with espionage was allowed to leave hong kong on sunday because the u s extradition request did not comply with the law the hong kong government said mr edward snowden left hong kong today june 23 on his own accord for a third country through a lawful and normal channel the government said in a statement a statement did not identify the country but the south china morning post newspaper earlier reported that snowden had left on a flight for moscow well sure because vladimir putin is such a defender of free expression just ask pussy riot leave a comment posted in abuse of power tags big brother is listening to you edward snowden nsa posted by mutantpoodle june 16 2013 maybe it s not just metadata i am not a lawyer but i m pretty damned sure this is unconstitutional rep jerrold nadler a new york democrat disclosed this week that during a secret briefing to members of congress he was told that the contents of a phone call could be accessed simply based on an analyst deciding that if the nsa wants to listen to the phone an analyst s decision is sufficient without any other legal authorization required nadler said he learned i was rather startled said nadler an attorney and congressman who serves on the house judiciary committee not only does this disclosure shed more light on how the nsa s formidable eavesdropping apparatus works domestically it also suggests the justice department has secretly interpreted federal surveillance law to permit thousands of low ranking analysts to eavesdrop on phone calls because the same legal standards that apply to phone calls also apply to e mail messages text messages and instant messages nadler s disclosure indicates the nsa analysts could also access the contents of internet communications without going before a court and seeking approval the disclosure appears to confirm some of the allegations made by edward snowden a former nsa infrastructure analyst who leaked classified documents to the guardian snowden said in a video interview that while not all nsa analysts had this ability he could from hawaii wiretap anyone from you or your accountant to a federal judge to even the president perhaps now dianne feinstein who is an ever present wet rag on the flame of civil liberties in this country can do some serious splainin about how this is perfectly fine and you too barack obama you are a lawyer and should know better plus you said when this all broke that no one is listening to your phone calls and as a handy guide for those of you covering this in our corporate media here is mutant poodle s guide on a scale of 1 10 to the relative scandal worthiness of of three recent imbroglios now that we have this information from representative nadler if anyone is looking for a good way to motivate senators and congresscritters on both sides of the aisle to put a stop to this simply point out that any nsa analyst could record all their calls with donors say or the people who run non coordinated superpacs come to think of it i d almost be willing to put up with this if all of those calls were recorded and transcripts published daily and in closing i d like to echo an epic john cole rant no you want to see the villain look in the mirror it s the pants wetting populace of the united states who votes for these assholes who pass bad laws in moments of crisis because we have to do something and because americans unlike every other nation in the world have a god given right to be safe at all times from all things fuck you all the only thing that might save this country from a couple more weeks of this partisan bullshit obscuring important issues is maybe we ll get lucky and a cute young blonde girl will get kidnapped and we can move on to something else amen leave a comment posted in abuse of power tags big brother is listening to you you re not paranoid posted by mutantpoodle june 13 2013 has anything happened recently no excuses it s just that at some point in january i got overwhelmed with a sense of deja vu i knew what was going to happen politically more or less and it s gets tiresome reboooting my outrage and anger and then i started working and then our national security state went front and center i wasn t even that excited by edward snowden or even his pole dancing girlfriend because quite frankly if you didn t know the government was mining telephone meta data all this time remember the bush administration folks you weren t really paying attention and it isn t a news flash that the nsa looks at furriners internet activity all the time either how they define foreign however is a bit problematic that said i think the conversation is good and i think people should know what their government is doing in their name to paraphrase the great charlie pierce and i didn t really care about edward snowden enough to put him in the category of traitor not really or hero um no until this beijing edward snowden told hong kong media that the united states is involved in extensive hacking operations directed against china and hong kong in an interview with the south china morning post published on the newspaper s website early thursday snowden said he wanted to demonstrate the hypocrisy of the u s government when it claims that it does not target civilian infrastructure unlike its adversaries oh brother let me say first of all that i am shocked shocked to discover that the land of my birth is engaged in espionage of any kind against any of the other peace loving nations that share the planet with us here s why i didn t have a problem with snowden sharing the verizon nsa story it wasn t really news and any terrorist with half a brain already knew to be wary of cell phones assuming they watched zero dark thirty they probably went to rotating burners at best or carrier pigeons long ago prism is newsworthy because a 51 probability that a target is foreign seems like a weak hurdle for you know warrantless search otherwise one of the disadvantages of being a non usa an living in non usa is that the constitution of the united states doesn t protect you and it doesn t protect china so as much as it offends young edward s sensibilities that we haven t copped to hacking into chinese computers while complaining about them doing the same to us it seems to me that the national security clearance he has and the agreements he signed to protect state secrets most certainly apply to that information and while it was already hard to call snowden a whistleblower based on the statute there s no way to justify what snowden just did which is not to put too fine a point on it treasonous and what sucks about that is that it could distract from the real discussion we should be having about what the nsa does to wit is it appropriate scotus has already ruled that it s constitutional is it effective are there proper or any controls what can be made public without risk of endangering real investigations and intelligence gathering i m going to go with three noes and quite a bit more than is made public now but i m happy to have a discussion about all of it and watch the gop filibuster and common sense revisions to how our government looks into everything we do leave a comment posted in abuse of power tags big brother is watching you douchebaggery on parade edward snowden posted by mutantpoodle january 8 2013 settling scores it s an all sports sort of post since congress has done what every hard working american does after returning to work in the new year which is of course give itself another 10 days off score number 1 whatever ranking notre dame is given by the humans behind the ap writers and usa today coaches polls must now be adjusted by five spots i m pretty sure alabama would have beaten anyone lined up against them last night who can t pay players in the daylight but notre dame is a lot more like boise state or northern illinois in terms of the value of its wins than say an oregon or a stanford and the notion that notre dame in the final polls of the season ranks ahead of georgia which damn near beat bama in the sec title game and texas a m which beat them in tuscaloosa strikes me as beyond absurd also too no moral high ground for notre dame which apparently thinks rape is ok in the service of a return to football glory score number 2 pro hockey will return to an arena which may or may not be near you i m not a big pro hockey fan college and olympic hockey are more fluid and far less marred by fights but the nhl has managed to toss an entire season 2004 05 into the dumpster and was perilously close to doing so again here is my favorite snippet from the story summarizing the deal about the value of some of the captains of industry who own nhl franchises more progress was made in early december when some less militant owners joined the talks and bettman and fehr temporarily excluded themselves but the hardest of the hardliners boston s jeremy jacobs and calgary s murray edwards remained involved and those sessions couldn t finish off the agreement talks came crashing to a halt when the players said they wanted fehr back in the process that they were not trained in the art of closing the deal and having their leader present was something they were certainly entitled to do edwards reportedly told them that fehr s return would be a deal killer and things ground to a halt following that episode the league wisely decided against active ownership participation i am just guessing here but there must be something about being able to buy and sell human beings that warps some people sense of place every damned professional league has a jeremy jacobs or murray edwards and they are lucky if they only have one or two and they are always the guys who end up making everything worse score number 3 it may be small of me to take some small amount of comfort or even pleasure in usc s fall from a 1 pre season football ranking to a 7 6 record an ugly loss in the sun bowl and a level of backstabbing that clouds their immediate future but i am at times a small man leave a comment posted in sports tags alabama nhl notre dame usc posted by mutantpoodle january 4 2013 friday morning tunes still in the glow of the new year so a pre noon friday tunes there s so much win in this clip first it s a young joni mitchell before she smoked herself down to an alto not complaining some of her later stuff is spectacular it s from the dick cavett show and um set design have a great weekend 2013 starts in earnest on monday 1 comment posted in music tags chelsea morning joni mitchell music posted by mutantpoodle january 3 2013 orange man given worst job in america john boehner has been re elected speaker of the house with apologies to the onion 2 comments posted in republicans tags house of representatives john boehner republicans posted by mutantpoodle january 2 2013 still fighting for the taxpayer the state of pennsylvania at the behest of their republican governor plans to sue the ncaa over the sanctions imposed on penn state in the wake of the jerry sandusky scandal apparently there is concern that some of the 60 million fine penn state is paying into an endowed fund to help prevent child sexual abuse and treat its victims might make its way outside the keystone state i m sure a few more tax cuts for the rich will cover their legal fees i despise the ncaa as much as anyone but seriously just shut up about the punishment and let the university recover this just makes the parties involved look small and what is it about organizations that implicitly condone sex abuse first the roman catholic church imposing its band of higher justice which is to say ignore the victims and shuffle the pedophiles to another diocese to create a new pool of victims and now the boy scouts who are shall we say zealous in defending their organization an oregon man s lawsuit alleged that scouting allowed troop leader timur dykes to continue in the group after he admitted molesting 17 boys in the early 1980s at the trial in 2010 regional scouts official eugene grant faulted parents for letting their...
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