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Not terribly surprised. People in the NSA and the Executive Branch violated the NSA charter and the U.S. Constitution, and they don't care. It's probable that a lot of American tech secrets are going straight in to competing Israeli tech companies.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/04/shady-companies-nsa/all/1


I listened to a repeat of an interview with the late Senator Robert Byrd, and he was talking about the time shortly after 9/11 when he did a scathing speech on the floor of the Senate lambasting his fellow Senators for cow-towing to Bush for fear of being branded un-Patriotic. Then Bush creates a shadow government without consulting the Senate. where Byrd was #3 in the line of succession to the Presidency, then goes on to create the Department of Homeland Security with zero input from the Senate.

Our freedoms are a far cry from what we had 15 years ago.

Date: 2012-04-07 04:27 am (UTC)
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Bet that's one of the ways they can get around the requirements against domestic spying without a warrant.

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