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Re:FBI secretly collected data on Aaron Swartz earlier than ... by dev_dull on Friday December 14, 2018 @10:59AM (#18681705)
One “great” thing about Trump taking office has been all of the sunlight on the FBI/DOJ abuses. We already knew these surveillance systems would be abused, and now we have many evidences of smoking guns. Unfortunately right now the only places picking them up are conservative researchers. Don’t ask me why.

This quote is a verifiable fact and should frighten everyone:

> We know from Collyers report the FISA-702(16)(17) process was extraordinarily abused by verified “contractors” who had access to the FBI/NSA database. The rate of abuse was 85%. Meaning 85 out of every 100 FISA702 database searches were unauthorized and outside of compliance.[1]

It gets worse. The data was used/sold for political purposes by opposition researchers.

The whole thing stinks and it’s not a partisan issue. Anyone that cares about this stuff should be rallying around this news and demanding more information. Parties aside, this is serious.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/12/14/john-solomon...

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Re:FBI secretly collected data on Aaron Swartz earlier than ... by blattimwind on Friday December 14, 2018 @11:01AM (#18681720)
> all of the sunlight on the FBI/DOJ abuses. We already knew these surveillance systems would be abused

creates secret police

secret police abuses citizens

What a twist.

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Re:FBI secretly collected data on Aaron Swartz earlier than ... by capulate89 on Friday December 14, 2018 @01:54PM (#18683469)
What was the point of your comment? To be smug? You just posted the equivalent of "hueh hueh and water is wet amirite?"

Let's have real discussions here.

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Re:FBI secretly collected data on Aaron Swartz earlier than ... by dragonwriter on Friday December 14, 2018 @02:19PM (#18683696)
> We already knew these surveillance systems would be abused, and now we have many evidences of smoking guns.

We had that as far back as the Bush 43 Administration with regard to the surveillance systems.

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Re:FBI secretly collected data on Aaron Swartz earlier than ... by cowsandmilk on Friday December 14, 2018 @02:14PM (#18683649)
> Unfortunately right now the only places picking them up are conservative researchers.

The document here was obtained by Property of People, who don't appear to be conservative researchers[1].

[1] https://propertyofthepeople.org/about-us/

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Re:FBI secretly collected data on Aaron Swartz earlier than ... by dev_dull on Friday December 14, 2018 @03:57PM (#18684682)
I meant the dissemination and review is the information, which is usually something left to journalist. It really should be a bipartisan issue.
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