US intelligence mining data from 9 US Internet companies in broad secret program

Re:US intelligence mining data from 9 US Internet companies ... by EvanKelly on Thursday June 06, 2013 @07:51PM (#5836110)

I don't know about Spitzer (though he was Governor of New York), but someone holding blackmail leverage over Petraeus is certainly a matter of national security concern.

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Re:US intelligence mining data from 9 US Internet companies ... by nitrogen on Thursday June 06, 2013 @09:21PM (#5836556)

...that is still outside the scope of the program that revealed the information.

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Re:US intelligence mining data from 9 US Internet companies ... by mattdeboard on Friday June 07, 2013 @12:43AM (#5837266)

This is a ridiculous post hoc justification.

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Re:US intelligence mining data from 9 US Internet companies ... by EvanKelly on Friday June 07, 2013 @03:57AM (#5837805)

I'm not making any justification in my post. I'm just saying that an affair/adultery by someone who holds national security information and a clearance is different than Joe Civilian.

There are security interests in monitoring people who hold clearance. I'm not making any statements about unlimited wiretapping and data collection.

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