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Re:Ninth Circuit rules NSA's bulk collection of Americans' c... by culturestate on Thursday September 03, 2020 @02:39AM (#24361377)
The off-the-books money that the CIA uses to pay those shady Raytheon subsidiaries doesn't appear out of thin air. It may be several layers removed and cycled through a few South American laundromats, but its genesis is always the U.S. Treasury.
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Re:Ninth Circuit rules NSA's bulk collection of Americans' c... by AndrewBissell on Thursday September 03, 2020 @11:14AM (#24364816)
The genesis is often illegal activities of various kinds, especially drug trafficking. Although I agree that is probably not enough money to run a mass surveillance operation on the scale of the NSA in perpetuity.
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