Ashcroft, Comey, Goldsmith, and Baker: “All” Is the “Best” Reading of “Relevant” http://www.emptywheel.net/2014/08/12/ashcroft-comey-goldsmith-and-baker-all-is-the-best-reading-of-relevant/ … "no stretching of ordinary meaning"
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Replying to @emptywheel
@emptywheel It looks like they redacted that the investigation to which this was all relevant was the one into "Al Qaeda" -- weird redaction2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @charlie_savage
@charlie_savage That's consistent w/all phone dragnet orders. I think that's bc if they revealed what orgs approved people could challenge.2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @emptywheel
@emptywheel Ah, good point. Why do you think they redact 2nd purpose of this besides historic contact chaining - automated alerts, I assume?3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @charlie_savage
@charlie_savage Best guess is finding burners, tho in phone dragnets they redact "data mining" or something similar in analogous spot.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @emptywheel
@emptywheel@charlie_savage Question is why they needed a FISC opinion when primary orders approve "all analytic tradecraft" for corp. store1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @PatrickCToomey
@PatrickCToomey If it's correlations and/or burners, it gets implemented pre corporate store.@charlie_savage2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @emptywheel
@emptywheel Assuming you mean they access more data than just 2 or 3 hops to perform these queries.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@PatrickCToomey Right--it's an algo. Map call patterns onto call patterns. Can't do it reverse unless all the 2nd degree contacts are alerts
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