Intel Official Robert Litt on Warrants for Searching American Communications: Either Misleading or Terrifying http://www.cato.org/blog/litt-warrants-searching-american-communications-either-misleading-or-terrifying …
@normative Sure. But you're talking all US-persons who contact a target. There's a exponential increase there fr front end identifiers.
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@emptywheel Well… only queries for those identifiers. Not applicable if the USPER com is pulled up via a query on the foreign target ID. -
@normative If I email target on March 1, March 10, and March 20, pulling up March 1 and 10 when reading March 20 is a search. -
@emptywheel OK, but they could have reviewed Awlaki’s prior emails without querying on Hasan... -
@normative And remember volume, which they described as "crushing" (made worse bc FBI's computer systems suck ass. http://www.emptywheel.net/2014/01/02/2-agents-3-hours-a-day-werent-really-reading-anwar-al-awlakis-email/ … -
@emptywheel OK, the core idea here is to require a warrant for database-wide queries on USPER selectors...
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