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Re:Documents shed light on U.S. surveillance programs by cgshaw on Friday August 09, 2013 @08:24PM (#6189476)
This is a game of semantics. They only "monitor" communications that they are "lawfully authorized" to monitor. Every government official has been playing this game for 2 months now.

The real questions are:

1. HOW MUCH DOMESTIC INTERNET TRAFFIC IS COLLECTED?

2. HOW IS THAT INFORMATION ORGANIZED?

3. HOW LONG DOES THE GOVERNMENT KEEP THE COLLECTED INFORMATION?

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Re:Documents shed light on U.S. surveillance programs by logn on Friday August 09, 2013 @09:42PM (#6189722)
The NSA are semantic sociopaths. You can never expect them to answer a question honestly because they'll redefine each term to some unexpected yet valid meaning.
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Re:Documents shed light on U.S. surveillance programs by dllthomas on Friday August 09, 2013 @09:52PM (#6189753)
... or invalid. They're not that picky.
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Re:Documents shed light on U.S. surveillance programs by hga on Friday August 09, 2013 @08:38PM (#6189524)
Don't use "collected"; as they use it "collection" only applies when captured and stored stuff is looked at.
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Re:Documents shed light on U.S. surveillance programs by unclebucknasty on Saturday August 10, 2013 @09:53AM (#6191076)
Indeed. And I would add one more: WHY?
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