Edward Snowden, after months of NSA revelations, says his mission’s accomplished

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Dec 26, 2013, 2:50 PM UTC

sailfast wrote: post #134

hooande wrote: post #87

But what has really changed? The NSA is under pressure from the public, less so from the intelligence and defense communities. If anything Snowden has caused those areas of government to close ranks even tighter. There's nothing a leader wants more than a highly visible enemy to unite his or her people. There are orders of magnitude more people who hate General Alexander now than there were two years ago. But his own…

> "But what has really changed?" The major change that I am seeing is that cases previously dismissed due to "national security" or other factors due to classification are now being heard in public courts. This allows the judicial system to perform its job properly and for Americans to bring their grievances formally to effect change. This is a big move forward, and will catalyze a great deal of change as court rulin…

Post by Tyrannosaurs » Fri, Dec 27, 2013, 7:01 PM UTC

malandrew wrote: post #141

Tyrannosaurs wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you think law enforcement aren't included in there customers? I know for a fact in the UK at least that they are. As for being arrested by a corporation - that will change. The UK government for one are beginning a process of outsourcing some elements of front line policing.

Interesting thought, I can imagine an ad campaign on Facebook targeting marijuana growers, and then the government using the profile information of those that click through to investigate them.