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Re:Sorry, NSA, Terrorists Don't Use Verizon. Or Skype. Or Gmail by tlrobinson on Tuesday June 25, 2013 @11:51AM (#5940325)
This article wasn't written for the NSA's benefit, it was written for the average person who might actually believe that terrorists are plotting their next attack on Gmail/Skype/Facebook and thinks the NSA is justified in performing this surveillance.

This implies two options: the NSA really are idiots and don't know this (unlikely), or they are well aware of this but are using terrorism as an excuse to do the surveillance anyway.

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Re:Sorry, NSA, Terrorists Don't Use Verizon. Or Skype. Or Gmail by Kylekramer on Tuesday June 25, 2013 @12:15PM (#5940490)
To what end? I don't believe the US government or the NSA are saints, but it just seem odd that to think entire agencies' purposes are intentional lies in order to achieve some vague goal that surveilling everyone achieves.
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