What’s the gullible level of ‘Murica for not believin’ in domestic surveillance exists – PB/TK
People Who Called Snowden a Traitor Shocked to Learn About All This Domestic Surveillance – By Scott Shackford / May 26 2017
There’s this whole “Life comes at you fast” shtick that folks on Twitter use to point out people’s hypocrisy. Suddenly Democrats care about federalism when it comes to immigration law enforcement! Suddenly Republicans don’t care about federalism when it comes to immigration law enforcement! I try not to engage in the shtick too much, because it feels more like point-scoring than actual debate.
But I can’t help but bring it up right now. Yesterday, a story about federal surveillance abuses made the rounds in the conservative parts of Twitter I pay attention to, not the tech-security circles where I usually see such discussions.
The story, via a media outlet called Circa, documents a recently released report from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA Court). The report features examples of the FBI passing along private data it collected without warrants to people who should not be seeing it.
It’s an important story, and it’s great that it’s getting attention. But what it reveals is well-known to anybody who has been paying attention to the surveillance disclosures and FISA Court document releases that have slowly been surfacing since Edward Snowden started leaking. The federal government is accessing and spreading around more information about U.S. citizens than we realize. That’s what Snowden’s disclosures were about, right?
Continue to reason.com article: http://reason.com/blog/2017/05/26/some-who-called-snowden-a-traitor-now-sh
