If you're just waking up, this morning those who championed the collection of ALL phone metadata in the country say the guy who first legally defended that standard should have his adult son exempted from such analysis.
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Not Wittes, no. But Comey? And members of Congress and judges? Yes.
It shows up in almost entirely redacted form in the old phone dragnet data. Also made clear by Senators' backflip on concerns abt separation of powers after Snowden.
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No actual secure comms in Gov’t. Everything is capable of being collected. The Ruling Class whitelist is actually a blacklist...
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Comms are still collected but key personnel selectors are blacklisted from access by regular IC analysts and operators.
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W/ the volume & varied intake methods there is no failsafe way to “not collect” a specific persons comms....
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This is the same problem as w/ NSA incidental collection of USP data. Bc the current system design doesn’t support intake discrimination.
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So the real question, which Drake and Binney can answer, was the design a bug or a feature?
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I’d guess feature too. Everyone is in a DB. That kind of info is just too valuable to delete over an unenforceable data retention protocol.
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