On Dec 4, 2016 8:38 PM, "Mirimir" <mirimir@riseup.net> wrote:
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> On 12/04/2016 04:19 PM, Steve Kinney wrote:
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> > I don't think the FBI will gain expanded powers of surveillance; rather, they will gain the ability to use information they already routinely gather by illegal means openly, in Court filings.  Where previously they had to work around the law by using illegal methods to locate information that is admissible in Court ("parallel construction"), they will be able to take a much more direct approach.
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> > :o/
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> Yes, that's reality. FBI leeches data and skills from NSA. And NSA does whatever it wants to. US is always at war. And there are no laws in war.

Yep, unhappily both are correct and the reality is very very sad, worse than my nightmares and fears.  :(

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."  -  Albert Einstein

This comic strip always makes me feel sad:  <http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2011/02/21>