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Re:NSA’s top talent is leaving because of low pay, flagging ... by willstrafach on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @09:56AM (#16061439)
If you believe that his claim was proven by a leak, I am not sure why it would be difficult to produce a citation. My understanding is that it is not a true claim.
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Re:NSA’s top talent is leaving because of low pay, flagging ... by ewjordan on Friday January 05, 2018 @07:05AM (#16078113)
His claim was the leak, and it was huge, and I'm not going to dig through it for you for quotes just because you're a contrarian. The NSA did a shit ton of surveillance that was not justified under known US law, and that's pretty well accepted at this point.

What claim don't you think is true? Was the NSA not indiscriminately scooping up and querying communications between US citizens?

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Re:NSA’s top talent is leaving because of low pay, flagging ... by willstrafach on Friday January 05, 2018 @01:29PM (#16080493)
> What claim don't you think is true? Was the NSA not indiscriminately scooping up and querying communications between US citizens?

Correct. That would be a very big deal in my opinion. After reading through the hundreds of source documents leaked by Snowden, I did not find evidence of any sort of mass collection on US persons. Only foreign collection, which is the job of a spy agency (Perhaps plenty of ethical arguments there of course, but that is besides the matter of USPI collection/reporting).

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