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Comment by consensus1

2 days ago

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We're currently running a long-term offshore experiment to see if 2A has any measurable impact on dragnet surveillance and the NSA.

  • There are plenty of things to complain about here, and that is one of them. But that authorization was passed by our elected representatives by a super majority and reauthorized by them multiple times. It was not done by a sneaky maneuver where the majority of congress voted against it but somehow it still became law.

    • And yet people were happy to call Snowden a traitor for breaking the news of it.