EITHER the dog-and-pony we've seen thus far on 215 dragnet is woefully incomplete or TS/SCI treatment of hearing is to protect lying.
@normative Like acetone! ;p If they got gun records, would they ALSO be unnamed?
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@emptywheel i.e. "intelligence indicates members of Group X have been purchasing Y type of weapon in the Z metro area over the past month" -
@normative But "intelligence indicates Inspire readers have used pressure cookers" should not get all pressure cooker purchases in US. -
@emptywheel Ideally that's the kind of thing you'd hope judges would do, though the FISC seems unwilling... -
@normative If terrorism trumps all then it's not clear how they would. -
@emptywheel Though legally, I think "no REP in pressure cooker sales receipts" is a lot easier to argue than "no REP in phone records" -
@normative Fair point. But doesn't that illustrate how dangerous divorcing this from proof that positive hits are meaningful?
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@emptywheel I don't even think gun records are unreasonable if there's a specific lead that provides a nexus to AFP activities. -
@normative Agree entirely. But it WOULD be unreasonable if it were bulk so as to have records. Esp since nutjobs more lethal thus far w/guns -
@emptywheel Agreed—only reasonable if time/region/type delimited in response to specific intel. But not clear this allows that either. -
@normative They have plenty of time to modify it in Senate, conference.
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