defend the indefensible: glenn fucking greenwald

Drone attacks continue, the FBI killed an unarmed witness, and Obama aides cash in

Update

American expat wears cargo shorts with gay Brazilian lover, Beltway elite shrug

Revealed: NSA collecting phone records of millions of Americans daily

The order directs Verizon to "continue production on an ongoing daily basis thereafter for the duration of this order". It specifies that the records to be produced include "session identifying information", such as "originating and terminating number", the duration of each call, telephone calling card numbers, trunk identifiers, International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) number, and "comprehensive communication routing information".

The information is classed as "metadata", or transactional information, rather than communications, and so does not require individual warrants to access. The document also specifies that such "metadata" is not limited to the aforementioned items. A 2005 court ruling judged that cell site location data – the nearest cell tower a phone was connected to – was also transactional data, and so could potentially fall under the scope of the order.

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The court order appears to explain the numerous cryptic public warnings by two US senators, Ron Wyden and Mark Udall, about the scope of the Obama administration's surveillance activities.

For roughly two years, the two Democrats have been stridently advising the public that the US government is relying on "secret legal interpretations" to claim surveillance powers so broad that the American public would be "stunned" to learn of the kind of domestic spying being conducted.

Because those activities are classified, the senators, both members of the Senate intelligence committee, have been prevented from specifying which domestic surveillance programs they find so alarming. But the information they have been able to disclose in their public warnings perfectly tracks both the specific law cited by the April 25 court order as well as the vast scope of record-gathering it authorized.

Julian Sanchez, a surveillance expert with the Cato Institute, explained: "We've certainly seen the government increasingly strain the bounds of 'relevance' to collect large numbers of records at once — everyone at one or two degrees of separation from a target — but vacuuming all metadata up indiscriminately would be an extraordinary repudiation of any pretence of constraint or particularized suspicion." The April order requested by the FBI and NSA does precisely that.

in which new guy ackerman & greenwald deliver

This guy does good work.

thx

lol

lmao i cant IMAGINE what the original draft of that greenwald piece looked like

http://www.out.com/sites/out.com/files/GlennGreenwald1.jpg

Good work GG. I may not like him but credit where it's due.

Actually I like him more every time I see the walking-the-dogs picture. That doesn't look like a guy who would question my reading comprehension.

i wore cargo shorts last weekend tbh

It's a good look

prefer skinny shorts, neutral-colored flip-flops, Labradors, and a Constitution.

They were discussing this article plus a drone operator's interview with NBC on "Morning Joe" this morning, and Joe was predicting Holder would soon be going through Greenwald's phone records

and by Greenwald's phone records you mean

I will leave the jokes to you.

do we have to use the Crazed Zionist's thread to praise GG?

wow dude

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFRbZJXjWIA

When is it time to let go of a friendship?

yeah i said "wow dude" when he started a trollthread just cuz moral objections to the manifest destiny of Israel gets his shorts in a bunch

I'm sorry you're sick dude but damn if you're not the biggest dick on ilx.

yeah it's definitely your noble political impulses & not your bitter misanthropic rage driving your personal attacks on Mordy. you have such undying compassion for the palestinian people that you can't help but sprinkle your snark with some light anti-Semitism. get the fuck outta here.

tsk tsk don't let bigots get away with that smokescreen

yeah it's definitely your noble political impulses & not your bitter misanthropic rage driving your personal attacks on Mordy. you have such undying compassion for the palestinian people that you can't help but sprinkle your snark with some light anti-Semitism. get the fuck outta here.

― ttyih boi (crüt), Thursday, June 6, 2013 11:28 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah it's definitely your noble political impulses & not your bitter misanthropic rage driving your personal attacks on Mordy. you have such undying compassion for the palestinian people that you can't help but sprinkle your snark with some light anti-Semitism. get the fuck outta here.

― ttyih boi (crüt), Thursday, June 6, 2013 11:28 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

lol, antisemitism. they got to u too huh curt

btw i practice a warm, seductive misanthropy.

i practice a warm, seductive flag post

roots of creation, airwair

Greenwald's piece on James Comey, the Bush official nominated to be the next FBI director was worth reading

i practice a warm, seductive flag post

― Mordy , Thursday, June 6, 2013 3:43 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

nice

lol

get the fuck outta here.

point taken

Rep. Louie Gohmert: "We've all got an Obama phone now"

hahahahaha

that line is funnier than anything jon stewart might say tonight

You're not alone.

welp greenwald is owning us all the last couple days

carrying us around in one of his many pockets

Glenn Greenwald ‏@ggreenwald 58s
I wish English language were broader so I could express my simultaneous contempt & mockery for the investigation threats emanating from DC

ha hes still not a very good writer tho

http://twitter.yfrog.com/z/4jg2jrj

The bird/key logo is pretty terrible too

don't really get the complaints about his writing, he's not mencken or anything but i can think of like a dozen prominent bloggers who are much worse stylists

Glenn Greenwald ‏@ggreenwald 58s
I wish English language were broader so I could express my simultaneous contempt & mockery for the investigation threats emanating from DC

yes, it's the fault of the english language

Spyware built in from the first grunts.

The next Zeitgeist movie is gonna be so dope

Will Saletan: BOW YOUR HEADS!

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/frame_game/2013/06/stop_the_nsa_surveillance_hysteria_the_government_s_scrutiny_of_verizon.html

@BarackObama 25m

"In a country where we expect free wifi with our coffee, why shouldn't we have it in our schools?" —President Obama in North Carolina today

GOOD TIMING

he said "Chill"!

More good timing:

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113399/nsa-collecting-verizon-records-why-internet-companies-fight-back