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Metadata helps find terrorists -- and Obama voters
Great cries of shock and disillusionment are echoing across many precincts of President Obama's political base, particularly among academics, civil libertarians, nonprofit activists and media celebrities. The howls of distress stem from the chief executive's stunning reversal on the scope and constitutionality of domestic surveillance programs at the National Security Agency and elsewhere in the federal government. Although he vociferously opposed these programs while campaigning for president in 2008 and before, Obama began singing quite a different tune once he began working in the Oval Office.
Since then, it has become increasingly difficult to see any light between Obama's position on surveillance programs and that of President George W. Bush, who inaugurated most of them in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington. What was in 2009 a mostly unspoken discomfort is today becoming a yawning gulf as Americans learn more about the extent to which their daily comings and goings are being captured digitally. Obama's impatient rejoinder that "you can't have 100 percent security and 100 percent privacy" was particularly shocking to his former admirers.
That's how the Obama campaign worked, first by gathering billions of bytes of data about individual Americans on what they buy, where they eat, their hobbies, their political party registration and a thousand other characteristics. Next, the campaign techies harvested individuals who subscribe to certain publications, visit particular websites and donate to selected nonprofits in patterns known to match those of confirmed Obama voters. The NSA uses the metadata to identify potential terrorists sympathizers, much as the Obama campaign used it to locate potential political supporters. It's not coincidental that Silicon Valley denizens were prominent architects of the government surveillance programs and the president's re-election digital strategy.
Washington Examiner
Since then, it has become increasingly difficult to see any light between Obama's position on surveillance programs and that of President George W. Bush, who inaugurated most of them in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington. What was in 2009 a mostly unspoken discomfort is today becoming a yawning gulf as Americans learn more about the extent to which their daily comings and goings are being captured digitally. Obama's impatient rejoinder that "you can't have 100 percent security and 100 percent privacy" was particularly shocking to his former admirers.
That's how the Obama campaign worked, first by gathering billions of bytes of data about individual Americans on what they buy, where they eat, their hobbies, their political party registration and a thousand other characteristics. Next, the campaign techies harvested individuals who subscribe to certain publications, visit particular websites and donate to selected nonprofits in patterns known to match those of confirmed Obama voters. The NSA uses the metadata to identify potential terrorists sympathizers, much as the Obama campaign used it to locate potential political supporters. It's not coincidental that Silicon Valley denizens were prominent architects of the government surveillance programs and the president's re-election digital strategy.
Washington Examiner
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Pure speculation!
Meanwhile, the House Intelligence Chairman says that Americans will support the surveillance program:
http://washingtonexaminer.com/house-intel-chairman-says-americans-will-support-surveillance-programs/article/2531959
Washington Examiner
Meanwhile, the House Intelligence Chairman says that Americans will support the surveillance program:
http://washingtonexaminer.com/house-intel-chairman-says-americans-will-support-surveillance-programs/article/2531959
Washington Examiner
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How can we trust any of them to tell us the truth?
It would not surprise me if this is a lie.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Mich., predicted on Sunday that Americans would ultimately support the National Security Agency’s vast surveillance methods once they learn more about the programs.
“If you can see just the number of cases where we’ve actually stopped a plot, I think Americans will come to a different conclusion than all the misleading rhetoric I’ve heard over the last few weeks,” Rogers said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
Rogers added, “This is a lockbox with only phone numbers, no names, no addresses in it — we’ve used it sparingly.”
Like NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander in recent days, Rogers said the data gathering had thwarted “dozens” of terrorist attacks.
According to the lawmaker, additional examples of foiled terror plots are expected to be unveiled in coming days. He said officials are determining how to declassify information without weakening national security.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Mich., predicted on Sunday that Americans would ultimately support the National Security Agency’s vast surveillance methods once they learn more about the programs.
“If you can see just the number of cases where we’ve actually stopped a plot, I think Americans will come to a different conclusion than all the misleading rhetoric I’ve heard over the last few weeks,” Rogers said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
Rogers added, “This is a lockbox with only phone numbers, no names, no addresses in it — we’ve used it sparingly.”
Like NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander in recent days, Rogers said the data gathering had thwarted “dozens” of terrorist attacks.
According to the lawmaker, additional examples of foiled terror plots are expected to be unveiled in coming days. He said officials are determining how to declassify information without weakening national security.
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I heard Americans are against all three scandals by numbers all in the 70s, the lowest being 73%.
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Re: Metadata helps find terrorists -- and Obama voters
fshnski wrote:It would not surprise me if this is a lie.
Now we know where all those "terrorists" went:
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