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Abundant tweets about civil liberties & national security. "Has a longer memory than an elephant & keeps more records than Jim Comey.” Legendary potty mouth.

Grand Rapids, MI
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    1. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 31 Oct 2013

      Jeff Bezos buys the capital's paper and FAA allows Kindles full flight? Coinky dink? (Yeah, I know, real science)

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    2. -‏ @un_pellegrino 31 Oct 2013
      Replying to @emptywheel

      @emptywheel FAA discussions to allow in flight electronics ongoing for 2 years, has been nearing conclusion pre-buy #stupid

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    3. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 31 Oct 2013
      Replying to @un_pellegrino

      @un_pellegrino I guess you didn't read where I said "(Yeah, I know, real science)"? Which one of us is stupid?

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    4. -‏ @un_pellegrino 31 Oct 2013
      Replying to @emptywheel

      @emptywheel the one who impugns others' integrity w/o evidence twice in two days but wants to be taken seriously #backatcha

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    5. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 31 Oct 2013
      Replying to @un_pellegrino

      @un_pellegrino Oh, that's right. Calling someone an apologist, aka "defender," noting he's CI is "impugning integrity." You prove my point!

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    6. -‏ @un_pellegrino 31 Oct 2013
      Replying to @emptywheel

      @emptywheel have only heard him emphatically condemn any crime by NSA; apologist clearly bad word. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apologetics#Etymology … & u should know it

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    7. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 31 Oct 2013
      Replying to @un_pellegrino

      @un_pellegrino If what I said "impugns" him, then he won't stand by his existing statements, which focus on defense of agency and CI.

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    8. -‏ @un_pellegrino 31 Oct 2013
      Replying to @emptywheel

      @emptywheel issue is what lawmakers allow, mandate, fund &oversee, not (so far) loose canons at NSA; 'apologist" distorts this, deniably.

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    9. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 31 Oct 2013
      Replying to @un_pellegrino

      @un_pellegrino But "apologist" is independent of what we've learned. It says only that Schindler is the most active defender on twitter.

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    10. -‏ @un_pellegrino 31 Oct 2013
      Replying to @emptywheel

      @emptywheel in academia apologist, (απολογία),="explainer." In vernacular="spinner 4 dirtbags."(Lanny Davis) Ambiguity really not good here

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      emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 31 Oct 2013
      Replying to @un_pellegrino

      @un_pellegrino Sadly for Schindler, the NSA keeps getting caught lying badly. But maybe his call to rebrand will change that.

      10:13 AM - 31 Oct 2013
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        2. -‏ @un_pellegrino 31 Oct 2013
          Replying to @emptywheel

          @emptywheel politicians forbid NSA to tell all; it is politicians who fail on the job, not, or less so, civil servants who answer to them.

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        3. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 31 Oct 2013
          Replying to @un_pellegrino

          @un_pellegrino Yes. But the NSA has lied, badly, about stuff that has been declassified. It's really embarrassing frankly.

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        4. -‏ @un_pellegrino 31 Oct 2013
          Replying to @emptywheel

          @emptywheel having lived in countries with brass knuckle secret police, I fear efficient ones far more than inefficient ones.

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        5. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 31 Oct 2013
          Replying to @un_pellegrino

          @un_pellegrino Yup. Here's to hoping the few efficient brass knuckles in localities here don't get all that data.

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        1. -‏ @un_pellegrino 31 Oct 2013
          Replying to @emptywheel

          @emptywheel if you don't totally flub your job, you don't have to fear your customers (voters) and their pitchforks.

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        1. -‏ @un_pellegrino 31 Oct 2013
          Replying to @emptywheel

          @emptywheel and no, I think monitoring of USA citizens FAR beyond what is healthy; proof of massive political failure.

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