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Re:Yandex Mail by tptacek on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @10:15AM (#5861864)
Yes, I actually believe what I'm writing. If you doubt any of the checks and balances work, what's there to discuss? The only conclusion I see you as being able to come to is that we'd have to eliminate all foreign signals intelligence.
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Re:Yandex Mail by CapitalistCartr on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @10:40AM (#5862015)
Or, hey, we could restore the pre9-11 checks and balances. Just a thought. Maybe we could demand our government not use every small threat to our country as an excuse to move the goalposts, the Overton Window. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
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Re:Yandex Mail by tptacek on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @10:42AM (#5862034)
Why are the pre-9/11 checks more trustworthy than the post-9/11 checks?
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Re:Yandex Mail by CapitalistCartr on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @10:49AM (#5862075)
tptacek, I can't reply to you directly. The checks haven't changed, the obeying part has. The executive branch of our government needs to return to following them. How to enforce that on the branch tasked with enforcement it the problem. The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence seems to lack a backbone. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Permanent_S...
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