The NSA watches you poop.
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Skanda
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/...washingtonpost
lol. You better hope you're dead wrong about his personality there a_skeleton_03
Loser Araysar
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1. why wouldn't the biggest data storage facility in US have "area-51 storage devices"?
2. exabytes is still massive volumes of data. 1 exabyte = 1 billion gigabytes
Loser Araysar
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tad10
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tad10
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fanaskin
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That's bullshit when they lied about the program, they pretended to defund it and built it anyways, GTFO
"""Following public outcry, the program was halted primarily because of privacy concerns, but also because its main advocate was John Poindexter, known for his involvement with the Iran-Contra scandal of the 1980s.
It now appears that the project "was stopped in name only" and that TIA is in fact continuing. The National Journal reports that TIA was moved from the Pentagon's research-and-development agency-known by its acronym DARPA-to another group, which builds technologies primarily for the NSA.The names of key projects were changed, apparently to conceal their identities,but their funding remained intact, often under the same contracts."""
It now appears that the project "was stopped in name only" and that TIA is in fact continuing. The National Journal reports that TIA was moved from the Pentagon's research-and-development agency-known by its acronym DARPA-to another group, which builds technologies primarily for the NSA.The names of key projects were changed, apparently to conceal their identities,but their funding remained intact, often under the same contracts."""
I doubt I am wrong about him. Just a matter of who offers him how much money. I am sure he isn't pure evil and probably doesn't intend to sell any "big secrets" in his opinion. He will justify everything with "I don't feel like it's causing 'grave damage' so this one won't be a big deal". He will say to himself "I deserve to get a bit of money to pay my bills, I am a hero after all" and will justify as many secrets sold as he can.
They very well could have defunded the program and then built a new program out of the ashes.
For a conspiracy theorist you know very little about the government.
fanaskin
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That's irrelevant to the idea that "the public knew" when every deception was made to keep it secret, it's such a bullshit angle, very few people knew or realized what was going on. that's the WHOLE POINT of the snowden disclosure, the public was grossly misinformed and had a gross misconception about what is going on.
on a grand scale 1-2 articles or a pbs series does nothing, you literally need all the major news channels to actually REPORT on stuff for days on end for the information to sink in.
and what's equally funny is if you look at the conversation I tried to have about this back in may before the leaks the very first post is you denying it's even POSSIBLE, nevermind is happening.
I notice you changed your tune from 2 months ago where you denied it was even possible.
on a grand scale 1-2 articles or a pbs series does nothing, you literally need all the major news channels to actually REPORT on stuff for days on end for the information to sink in.
and what's equally funny is if you look at the conversation I tried to have about this back in may before the leaks the very first post is you denying it's even POSSIBLE, nevermind is happening.
I notice you changed your tune from 2 months ago where you denied it was even possible.
Everyone knows about the Utah thing. Everyone knows about "Room 641" and has for years.
Everything you talked about is stuff that we all knew before Snowden yet nobody did anything. Snowden brought nothing new to the table.
Kirun
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Obama is toweling him down while the AG shoots gatorade into his mouth and Cheney massages his shoulders.
tad10
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Obama/Cheney '16 Because neither of them is done with the USA just yet and neither gives a fuck about the Constitution.
BoldW
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Then really Snowden's crime is comparable to a staffperson leaking out the new Spago menu. Hardly seems like the "grave damage" rhetoric the Administration and its pundits spew out right before they call him a drop-out Traitor. You can't have it both ways. Either he's a traitor who divulged secret information about secret programs, or he isn't (and if we knew about it all before, then he isn't, certainly not to the extent of Traitor).
Obviously, these programs are new, and their scope is nothing the country, and probably the world, has seen before.
Snowden probably did us a favor as far as protecting America from terrorists, at least for a while. The terrorists are too busy watching us metaphorically blow ourselves up to literally blow us up. One would think that right now would be the absolute worst time for terrorists to attack us. It would probably be a great time for the administration.