The Criminal N.S.A.
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The Criminal N.S.A.
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#2The public is not acquiescing in surveillance. It is simply rare for the mainstream media to report on this critically (or at all -- note the lack of front-page coverage of this story in the New York Times), an appalling development given the extension of this surveillance apparatus to targeting journalists.
With that in mind, it is worth noting that the two authors of this piece are NOT professional journalists, although what they report could and should easily have been put together by actual staffers.
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#3The public is not acquiescing in surveillance. It is simply rare for the mainstream media to report on this critically (or at all -- note the lack of front-page coverage of this story in the New York Times), an appalling development given the extension of this surveillance apparatus to targeting journalists. With that in mind, it is worth noting that the two authors of this piece are NOT professional journalists, alt…
> - note the lack of front-page coverage of this story in the New York Times
1. As of right now, the story is linked to on the front page in the Opinion box since this is an opinion piece and not a news piece. If you want opinion as news, I refer you to Fox News or Buzzfeed or Upworthy.
2. The story of the NSA surveillance was front page on the NY Times when it broke and for about a week or two after.
3. The Mainstream media has been reporting on this consistently, both on the Snowden drama and the actual substance of his leaks.
It's sad to see both longer-time and newer users running around with this chicken little reddit-level bullshit. The mods seem to be complicit in it so oh well. The upside is that I waste less time here.
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#4The public is not acquiescing in surveillance. It is simply rare for the mainstream media to report on this critically (or at all -- note the lack of front-page coverage of this story in the New York Times), an appalling development given the extension of this surveillance apparatus to targeting journalists. With that in mind, it is worth noting that the two authors of this piece are NOT professional journalists, alt…
> - note the lack of front-page coverage of this story in the New York Times 1. As of right now, the story is linked to on the front page in the Opinion box since this is an opinion piece and not a news piece. If you want opinion as news, I refer you to Fox News or Buzzfeed or Upworthy. 2. The story of the NSA surveillance was front page on the NY Times when it broke and for about a week or two after. 3. The Mainstre…
Thank you for that interjection of sanity.
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#5Is it possible for Americans to file a class action suit over a top secret government surveillance program? I feel like we all have standing at least.
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#6Is it possible for Americans to file a class action suit over a top secret government surveillance program? I feel like we all have standing at least.
The courts would rightly reject it as a political matter.
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#8Is it possible for Americans to file a class action suit over a top secret government surveillance program? I feel like we all have standing at least.
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#9The public is not acquiescing in surveillance. It is simply rare for the mainstream media to report on this critically (or at all -- note the lack of front-page coverage of this story in the New York Times), an appalling development given the extension of this surveillance apparatus to targeting journalists. With that in mind, it is worth noting that the two authors of this piece are NOT professional journalists, alt…
> - note the lack of front-page coverage of this story in the New York Times 1. As of right now, the story is linked to on the front page in the Opinion box since this is an opinion piece and not a news piece. If you want opinion as news, I refer you to Fox News or Buzzfeed or Upworthy. 2. The story of the NSA surveillance was front page on the NY Times when it broke and for about a week or two after. 3. The Mainstre…
The Times puts plenty of opinion on the front page. It just does so obliquely. I can't forget their headline for the IRS scandal: "I.R.S. Scandal Gives G.O.P. Issue to Seize On", as if the politicization of the government's taxing power were only regretful to the extent that it might slow down the Democratic Party's policy agenda.
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#10 "...The two programs violate both the letter and the spirit of federal law."
"We may never know all the details of the mass surveillance programs, but we know this: The administration has justified them through abuse of language, intentional evasion of statutory protections, secret, unreviewable investigative procedures and constitutional arguments that make a mockery of the government’s professed concern with protecting Americans’ privacy. It’s time to call the N.S.A.’s mass surveillance programs what they are: criminal."
Fatal bug throughout the whole `stack'?
Are these lawyered authors actually telling us the rudder is gone and the entire hull rotten?