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    emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 3 Apr 2017

    Pro tip: If you don't want to be surveilled, DON'T TALK TO FORMER FSB OFFICERS RUNNING SANCTIONED BANKS. (That was easy)

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      2. Curious‏ @Cur_ious1 3 Apr 2017
        Replying to @emptywheel @ncweaver

        Other than the fact that you have called incidental collection "surveillance." So does Team Trump, while former O adm officials try not to.

        2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      3. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 3 Apr 2017
        Replying to @Cur_ious1 @ncweaver

        Well, there's incidental collection of foreign intelligence figures and there's talking to known spies who also run sanctioned entities.

        3 replies 0 retweets 15 likes
      4. Curious‏ @Cur_ious1 3 Apr 2017
        Replying to @emptywheel @ncweaver

        Is there any circumstance under which collecting info about Americans is not "surveillance"?

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      5. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 3 Apr 2017
        Replying to @Cur_ious1 @ncweaver

        I'm sort of maximal in using the term. I'm also cognizant different justifications for use & different use of data. That matters.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      6. Curious‏ @Cur_ious1 3 Apr 2017
        Replying to @emptywheel @ncweaver

        I am still working things out. In the wake of Snowden leaks, there is suspicion of IC activities, which can be used for political purposes.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      7. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 3 Apr 2017
        Replying to @Cur_ious1 @ncweaver

        Real concern. Also real concern real whistleblowers will get sucked up,as they have. Concern Trump's s-i-l can't meet FSB low on my list

        0 replies 0 retweets 6 likes
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      2. Warren Terra‏ @warren__terra 3 Apr 2017
        Replying to @emptywheel

        The corollary: if your name was mentioned in wiretapped conversations of organized crime figures, THAT'S NOT EVIDENCE YOU WERE SURVEILLED.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      3. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 3 Apr 2017
        Replying to @warren__terra

        Maybe, depends on kind of reference. But Jared has SO CLEARLY done things that will get you surveilled, this is nuts.

        1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
      4. Warren Terra‏ @warren__terra 3 Apr 2017
        Replying to @emptywheel

        IANAL, & can see such recordings being probable cause to start tapping the mentioned person. But they're not, themselves, proof of tapping.

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      1. Nuno Felix‏ @Felix_Nuno 4 Apr 2017
        Replying to @emptywheel @IntelOperator

        If you do it.... come to the Alps or Calabria or Hungary somewhere. The middle of nowhere with poor reception and huge mountains....

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      1. Jim O'Donnell‏ @jimodonnell2 3 Apr 2017
        Replying to @emptywheel

        You make it sound so...I dont know...logical....

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      1. fuldog‏ @fuldog 3 Apr 2017
        Replying to @emptywheel @NewroUgh

        'If you've got nothing to hide...' (Easier. Naive, but easier.)

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      2. Lee Harvey Griswold‏ @donachaidh 3 Apr 2017
        Replying to @TE_Seuc @emptywheel

        Lee Harvey Griswold Retweeted Lee Harvey Griswold

        https://twitter.com/donachaidh/status/798560255630249984 …

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        Lee Harvey Griswold @donachaidh
        Bout to find myself with a lot of very strange bedfellows https://twitter.com/jwpetersNYT/status/798555781268434944 …
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      4. Lee Harvey Griswold‏ @donachaidh 3 Apr 2017
        Replying to @TE_Seuc @emptywheel

        It most assuredly was.

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      1. kiciacat‏ @kicia_cat 4 Apr 2017
        Replying to @emptywheel @BlogsofWar

        They did say he was stupid

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      1. thzink‏ @thzink 3 Apr 2017
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Jesus, no shit

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