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by grandalf
3337 days ago
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I think he came to the belief that there was legal justification for conducting mass surveillance in secret... in other words that the AG didn't need to sign off on it for it to be an appropriate tool. If the AG had signed for it, then we'd have probably seen the supreme court weigh in on it. But since he didn't, the program continued behind closed doors and grew massively. I believe now there is a rolling 60 day archive of nearly all worldwide communications and metadata (and longer rolling archives for select subsets). It's incredibly impressive tech but quite scary. |
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