Comey, Bob Litt, and PCLOB all say it happens so routinely (on USPs against whom there's no evidence of wrongdoing) they can't count.
Well, 1) The numbers Circa uses are for back door searches, not masking 2) The court decision they refer to are for back door searches.
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34k in the article? What is the 106k you use from? And the article doesn't state that from what I gather. But I'll reread.
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106K is the number of foreigners' data they're searching in (actually smaller at FBI & CIA). SO Gmail, Yahoo, FB content of 106 people.
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But not 106k US citizens?
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Nope. How many US citizens communications will be caught up in 106K full data streams?
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Caught up, but again, how many are searched illegally without a warrant or unmasked? Usually only the gatherer has unmasked intel
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FISC has approved these searches; they're considered legal but Congress may change that. But 5,000 USPs were searched on w/o a warrant.
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So the 106k "data stream" number is NSA. Raw data. FBI and CIA get a subset. What 34k? CIA gets more than FBI? Same? This is over 4years?
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106K is just last year. Last year they pulled all the data streams for 94K targets. Before that 92K targets. Data kept for 5 years.
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And Paul did not say "mask," not that I've seen. He said quote-wiretap, which I agree is inflammatory. But this is an issue being legislated
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No, but masking was at the heart of the quote wiretapping issue he is clearly referring to.
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No. It's not. Paul has been talking about back door searches marginally competently since 2013.
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So. 106k recorded convos since 2013? 106k entities? 106K "identities"?
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Assume the entire in-boxes for all PRISM producers they use, plus some other comms, for 106K identifiable targets.
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Of which you left out the term legally.
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Absolutely. Legally.
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Well obviously we are supposed to disregard the retweet, the tweet, the story and go to the court decisions and statistics. Obviously.
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