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Abundant tweets about civil liberties & national security. "Has a longer memory than an elephant & keeps more records than Jim Comey.” Legendary potty mouth.

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    1. Josh Gerstein‏Verified account @joshgerstein Jan 19

      NEW: NSA deleted large volume of data from Bush-ordered Web surveillance, despite court order and promise to preserve it. Spy agency 'sincerely regrets its failure'http://politi.co/2FYcxym 

      296 replies 2,209 retweets 2,107 likes
    2. Lemon Slayer‏ @LemonSlayerUS Jan 19
      Replying to @joshgerstein

      Just how 3rd-rate & amateurish is NSA's IT staff? Deleted backups subject to a court preservation order. Have they no clue? Yes, a rhetorical question.

      6 replies 5 retweets 36 likes
    3. jamierlawson‏ @jamierlawson Jan 19
      Replying to @LemonSlayerUS @joshgerstein

      "Backup" probably doesn't mean to them what u think. Data is widely sharded. The same bits are in 50 different systems in different buildings, then assembled as required. Redundant & fault tolerant like nrml backup, but w/o a disk you can go to and say "there's the backup file!"

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    4. Lemon Slayer‏ @LemonSlayerUS Jan 19
      Replying to @jamierlawson @joshgerstein

      @emptywheel 1. Could be, but I'm skeptical. First & foremost, one would have to understand that NSA was under specific Federal court order to maintain intercepted Internet data. NSA General Counsel's office would've made it clear to NSA IT tech.

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    5. Lemon Slayer‏ @LemonSlayerUS Jan 19
      Replying to @LemonSlayerUS @jamierlawson and

      2, Secondly, after NSA GC explains court order, NSA IT Techs' duty was to explicitly provide the data to the NSA GC's office. So somebody in NSA IT royally screed the pooch by only giving NSA GC the metadata.

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    6. Lemon Slayer‏ @LemonSlayerUS Jan 19
      Replying to @LemonSlayerUS @jamierlawson and

      3. Screwed, not screed. :-) Anyways, how did NSA IT Techs verify that they were providing exactly what the NSA GC wanted? Apparently they did no verification at all because metadata isn't the contents of the intercepts.

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    7. Lemon Slayer‏ @LemonSlayerUS Jan 19
      Replying to @LemonSlayerUS @jamierlawson and

      4. Thirdly, how did the NSA GC Office validate that the NSA IT Techs had turned over the proper tapes? Apparently that didn't occur either. Seems like the NSA GC Office simply took the word of the NSA IT Techs that they had done it right.

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      emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jan 19
      Replying to @LemonSlayerUS @jamierlawson @joshgerstein

      Remember, this is the same NSA GC office that did 25 spot checks of PRTT data and never once found that every single record ingested violated the rules.

      5:54 PM - 19 Jan 2018
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