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Global War on Terror Version 6 - Perpetual Motion Machine

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The old ways are the best ways.

The U.S. government is fighting back against new encryption technologies on smartphones made by Apple and those using Google's latest version of Android. With a strongly worded argument, an official at the U.S. Department of Justice plainly stated that without access to a suspect's phone, a child could die in cases such as kidnapping.
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First Amendment? Won't someone think of the children?!
 
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Kepler said:
The old ways are the best ways.



First Amendment? Won't someone think of the children?!
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It was so much easier is the good old days when nobody even discussed this. The Government could simply set ineffective encryption standards, pay their friendly telecos for data, or coerce the tech companies by threatening them with bankruptcy, a gag order that prevented them from even telling attorneys about the subpoena, and James Clapper could lie to Congress about the illegal spying with impunity:

Senate Intelligence Committee on March 12, 2013, Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., asked National Intelligence Director James Clapper whether intelligence officials collect data on Americans.

Clapper responded "No, sir," and, "Not wittingly."

In the following months, a series of news stories fueled by leaks from former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden revealed that wasn’t the case. Reports showed the government was collecting and storing bulk metadata of American phone records, and had methods for capturing a vast amount of email and Internet data as well.
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The U.S. government threatened to fine Yahoo $250,000 a day in 2008 if it failed to comply with a broad demand to hand over user communications — a request the company believed was unconstitutional — according to court documents unsealed Thursday that illuminate how federal officials forced American tech companies to participate in the National Security Agency’s controversial PRISM program.

The documents, roughly 1,500 pages worth, outline a secret and ultimately unsuccessful legal battle by Yahoo to resist the government’s demands. The company’s loss required Yahoo to become one of the first to begin providing information to PRISM, a program that gave the NSA extensive access to records of online com*munications by users of Yahoo and other U.S.-based technology firms.

The ruling by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review became a key moment in the development of PRISM, helping government officials to convince other Silicon Valley companies that unprecedented data demands had been tested in the courts and found constitutionally sound. Eventually, most major U.S. tech companies, including Google, Facebook, Apple and AOL, complied. Microsoft had joined earlier, before the ruling, NSA documents have shown.
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I'll bet Pio will be all over this one, pointing a contemptuous finger at those hysterical ladies who got the vapors over the atrocities committed by Obama and his lackeys.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A two-year investigation by the Republican-controlled House Intelligence Committee has found that the CIA and the military acted properly in responding to the 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, and asserted no wrongdoing by Obama administration appointees.
Debunking a series of persistent allegations hinting at dark conspiracies, the investigation of the politically charged incident determined that there was no intelligence failure, no delay in sending a CIA rescue team, no missed opportunity for a military rescue, and no evidence the CIA was covertly shipping arms from Libya to Syria.
 
burd said:
I'll bet Pio will be all over this one, pointing a contemptuous finger at those hysterical ladies who got the vapors over the atrocities committed by Obama and his lackeys.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A two-year investigation by the Republican-controlled House Intelligence Committee has found that the CIA and the military acted properly in responding to the 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, and asserted no wrongdoing by Obama administration appointees.
Debunking a series of persistent allegations hinting at dark conspiracies, the investigation of the politically charged incident determined that there was no intelligence failure, no delay in sending a CIA rescue team, no missed opportunity for a military rescue, and no evidence the CIA was covertly shipping arms from Libya to Syria.
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Faux "News" is doing a 3-hour special in prime time to apologize to viewers for misleading them for so long. The highlight will be their exclusive interview with Darrell Issa, who is reportedly going to pull a Jimmy Swaggart. Should be fascinating television.
 
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Priceless said:
Faux "News" is doing a 3-hour special in prime time to apologize to viewers for misleading them for so long. The highlight will be their exclusive interview with Darrell Issa, who is reportedly going to pull a Jimmy Swaggart. Should be fascinating television.
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It would take a lot longer than 3 hours for Fox to even cite all the times they've knowingly lied, let alone apologize. :D

(and yes, I know you were joking)
 
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ScoobyDoo said:
No. He always stands for more war in the Middle East. If not there then somewhere else. And if not somewhere else, then anywhere.
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To be fair to Lindsey, he only supports the wars AIPAC bribes him to. If the Palestinians ponied up a dollar more than Israel, he'd turn on a dime.
 
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Priceless said:
Faux "News" is doing a 3-hour special in prime time to apologize to viewers for misleading them for so long. The highlight will be their exclusive interview with Darrell Issa, who is reportedly going to pull a Jimmy Swaggart. Should be fascinating television.
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This will be a fine opportunity to see how passive voice can be so useful: "Mistakes were made."
 
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joecct said:
Pat gives a history lesson and remarks on the Hagel dismissal:
http://m.townhall.com/columnists/patbuchanan/2014/11/25/hagel-didnt-start-the-fire-n1923425
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Pat's selective blindness on the destructive impact of Reagan's policies in the Middle East is fascinating. The Nixon/Ford/Carter middle eastern policies actually worked (as much as anything in the ME "works") and as a Nixon lackey he could even stroke his monumental ego over them. That he continues to try to slavishly (and incorrectly) attribute those successes to Reagan, whose people did start the fire, is just bizarre.

His sophisticated (whether correct or not history will judge) Kissingerian idea of rendering unto Russia what is Russia's is also inconsistent with Reagan's nursery school view of geopolitics. How can a guy who sees the idiocy of Dubya not also see that Reagan was Dubya with better hair?
 
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