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    1. David Simon‏Verified account @AoDespair 20 Mar 2016
      Replying to @LuckyPyrate

      @LuckyPyrate @Snowden We are actually still waiting for first revelation of NSA data pile being used against citizens. In theory? ....

      4 replies 3 retweets 7 likes
    2. Edward Snowden‏Verified account @Snowden 20 Mar 2016
      Replying to @AoDespair

      @AoDespair @LuckyPyrate With respect, this meme is not correct, and repeating it does the public a disservice. And non-USPs have rights too.

      4 replies 7 retweets 31 likes
    3. David Simon‏Verified account @AoDespair 20 Mar 2016
      Replying to @Snowden

      @Snowden @LuckyPyrate I'm afraid I also expect US intelligence community to spy as an existential matter. That's a discussion for more...

      1 reply 4 retweets 2 likes
    4. David Simon‏Verified account @AoDespair 20 Mar 2016
      Replying to @AoDespair

      @Snowden @LuckyPyrate ...than 140 characters. Suffice to say I hope the Russians, Chinese, French, Japanese and Israelis know everything...

      1 reply 1 retweet 1 like
    5. David Simon‏Verified account @AoDespair 20 Mar 2016
      Replying to @AoDespair

      @Snowden @LuckyPyrate about our intentions and vice versa. I hope everyone's Intel is sharp. I fear August 1914 more than spying affronts.

      1 reply 4 retweets 6 likes
    6. David Simon‏Verified account @AoDespair 20 Mar 2016
      Replying to @AoDespair

      @Snowden @LuckyPyrate And to that end I can find your whistleblowing out of concern for US civil liberties wholly legit. Whether..

      1 reply 4 retweets 14 likes
    7. David Simon‏Verified account @AoDespair 20 Mar 2016
      Replying to @AoDespair

      @Snowden @LuckyPyrate ..you are correct about unconstitutionality of NSA programming or no, I believe that u were convinced of it.

      3 replies 3 retweets 8 likes
    8. David Simon‏Verified account @AoDespair 20 Mar 2016
      Replying to @AoDespair

      @Snowden @LuckyPyrate Frankly, I wish your revelations had proscribed themselves to the domestic concerns. Internationally....no.

      5 replies 5 retweets 10 likes
    9. David Simon‏Verified account @AoDespair 20 Mar 2016
      Replying to @AoDespair

      @Snowden @LuckyPyrate The world is a smaller, more dangerous place with every year. Unless nationalism and religion itself is foresworn...

      3 replies 4 retweets 5 likes
    10. David Simon‏Verified account @AoDespair 20 Mar 2016
      Replying to @AoDespair

      @Snowden @LuckyPyrate I want the great nations to spy their balls off and learn all they can about collective/individual intention.

      5 replies 8 retweets 3 likes
      Edward Snowden‏Verified account @Snowden 20 Mar 2016
      Replying to @AoDespair

      @AoDespair With respect, this is far less considered than your other points. Argues that capability matters more than rights. Ends justify.

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        2. Edward Snowden‏Verified account @Snowden 20 Mar 2016
          Replying to @Snowden

          @AoDespair Even Obama rejects this doctrine. I quote, "Just because we can, doesn't mean we should."

          3 replies 25 retweets 68 likes
        3. Edward Snowden‏Verified account @Snowden 20 Mar 2016
          Replying to @Snowden

          @AoDespair I've got to go, but caution that though spying has benefits, history reminds us of that it comes at a price. Yours in service, -E

          10 replies 29 retweets 95 likes
        4. David Simon‏Verified account @AoDespair 20 Mar 2016
          Replying to @Snowden

          @Snowden Had to quit to drive my daughter home from grandma's. Now dinner. And it's gotta be way late where you are. Thx for time....1/2

          2 replies 3 retweets 5 likes
        5. David Simon‏Verified account @AoDespair 20 Mar 2016
          Replying to @AoDespair

          @Snowden Will try to conclude on the last points later. We started with small technical stuff, and now cans o' worms popping open and shit.

          1 reply 3 retweets 21 likes
        6. David Simon‏Verified account @AoDespair 20 Mar 2016
          Replying to @AoDespair

          @Snowden But this was an interesting discussion on a lot of levels. Thx again.

          5 replies 3 retweets 29 likes
        7. Bryon Whitley‏ @bryontreece 20 Mar 2016
          Replying to @AoDespair

          @AoDespair @Snowden can’t we get you two guys in a room together & film the discussion? The world could really use such discourse right now.

          1 reply 4 retweets 5 likes
        8. David Simon‏Verified account @AoDespair 20 Mar 2016
          Replying to @bryontreece

          @bryontreece @Snowden Never mind filming it. It would be an interesting lunch even off-the-record. For me anyway.

          2 replies 1 retweet 5 likes
        9. David Simon‏Verified account @AoDespair 20 Mar 2016
          Replying to @AoDespair

          @bryontreece @Snowden Maybe the NSA and Putin's people will take notes. You could ask them to share. ;)

          0 replies 1 retweet 7 likes
        10. End of conversation
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        2. David Simon‏Verified account @AoDespair 20 Mar 2016
          Replying to @Snowden

          @Snowden With regard to your distrinct cite of instances in which NSA has been engaged in domestic LE activity, I could not agree more.

          1 reply 1 retweet 1 like
        3. David Simon‏Verified account @AoDespair 20 Mar 2016
          Replying to @AoDespair

          @Snowden At least in so much as it is awful precedent both legally and politically. It damages the cred of allowing NSA to follow overseas..

          1 reply 1 retweet 1 like
        4. David Simon‏Verified account @AoDespair 20 Mar 2016
          Replying to @AoDespair

          @Snowden intel back into this country for anti-terror purposes, which to me is a specific & credible function. In fact, I would have given..

          1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes
        5. David Simon‏Verified account @AoDespair 20 Mar 2016
          Replying to @AoDespair

          @Snowden the Pulitzer to Reuters the year that the Guardian/Post won on this stuff for having shown the use of NSA stuff by DEA. However,

          1 reply 2 retweets 2 likes
        6. David Simon‏Verified account @AoDespair 20 Mar 2016
          Replying to @AoDespair

          @Snowden let me be clear. The places where mission creep is evident have not yet involved the idea of the data pile that unhinged so many...

          1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes
        7. David Simon‏Verified account @AoDespair 20 Mar 2016
          Replying to @AoDespair

          @Snowden Fact is, NSA and LE don't even need to misrep that purpose of that data pile to achieve these other captures.

          1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes
        8. David Simon‏Verified account @AoDespair 20 Mar 2016
          Replying to @AoDespair

          @Snowden Ex. I'm a reporter, so I loath the misuse of metadata to scan news orgs. phones & discover sources, as per Holder. Having said so,

          1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes
        9. David Simon‏Verified account @AoDespair 20 Mar 2016
          Replying to @AoDespair

          @Snowden a critic noted my tolerance of the data haystack for anti-terror and I explained that if the gov't wanted to chase news sources...

          1 reply 1 retweet 1 like
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        2. David Simon‏Verified account @AoDespair 20 Mar 2016
          Replying to @Snowden

          @Snowden I don't think a unilateral eschewing of capabilities is possible and to argue for such makes anyone a right proper luftmenschen.

          2 replies 3 retweets 4 likes
        3. David Simon‏Verified account @AoDespair 20 Mar 2016
          Replying to @AoDespair

          @Snowden Ex. Right now in S.China Sea one nation is trying hegemonious island building to reclassify previous int'l waters. Another objects.

          1 reply 3 retweets 5 likes
        4. David Simon‏Verified account @AoDespair 20 Mar 2016
          Replying to @AoDespair

          @Snowden An ally of the second is using its military assets to gently boundary the first. I sure to hell hope the Chinese/Japanese/Yanks...

          3 replies 2 retweets 1 like
        5. Brian Hacker‏ @Hacker_Poker 20 Mar 2016
          Replying to @AoDespair

          @AoDespair @Snowden it's the vacuum all incl. Merkel, Brazil energy etc. on the non-USP front that is counterproductive on its own terms

          1 reply 1 retweet 0 likes
        6. David Simon‏Verified account @AoDespair 20 Mar 2016
          Replying to @Hacker_Poker

          @Hacker_Poker @Snowden Again, I'd like to think everyone isn't trying to listen to everyone else, but I live in this world presently.

          1 reply 1 retweet 0 likes
        7. Brian Hacker‏ @Hacker_Poker 20 Mar 2016
          Replying to @AoDespair

          @AoDespair @Snowden I think the primary source nature of the tech changes the reaction of those heard. It's fundamentally diff imho

          1 reply 1 retweet 0 likes
        8. David Simon‏Verified account @AoDespair 20 Mar 2016
          Replying to @Hacker_Poker

          @Hacker_Poker @Snowden Probably true. But the moral grayness/elemental necessity of even peacetime spying hasn't changed in centuries.

          1 reply 1 retweet 1 like
        9. Brian Hacker‏ @Hacker_Poker 20 Mar 2016
          Replying to @AoDespair

          @AoDespair @Snowden 1/2 Agreed. Could spy tech be a shift similar from conventional weapons to nuclear?

          2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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