On 7/15/13 11:28 AM, Steve Smith wrote:
This mode of use is powerful (TiVO for intell) but at least it limits
(in principle) use to an actual incident, something determined
(legally?) to be actionable.
The secret guidance from the attorney general was that the NSA director
has the latitude to pass on intel from `incidental' collection to the
FBI if there is evidence of a crime being committed. So even if the
FBI doesn't have legally usable intel after given the NSA digest they
obviously can invent some pretty easily by watching the right people at
the right time (duh!). Even more curious is that it is not the NSA
hardware, it's FBI hardware, oh, except when it is the vendors'. The
NSA is looking for international bad actors with FBI hardware, except
when it is handy to make an illegal arrest on a U.S. citizen.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled Zimmerman idiocy.
Where's Doug when you need him.. :-)
Marcus
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