Thursday, February 16, 2017

Spies R US

NYTimes reports that in the last days of the Obama administration, President Obama expanded the ability of the spy agencies to find out about you.


WASHINGTON — In its final days, the Obama administration has expanded the power of the National Security Agency to share globally intercepted personal communications with the government’s 16 other intelligence agencies before applying privacy protections.
The new rules significantly relax longstanding limits on what the N.S.A. may do with the information gathered by its most powerful surveillance operations, which are largely unregulated by American wiretapping laws. 



read the whole thing. And remember, if Trumpie boy did this the media would be calling for impeachment. Instead it was reported on page A11...

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