On Dec 4, 2016 8:38 PM, "Mirimir" <[1]mirimir@riseup.net> wrote:
   >
   > On 12/04/2016 04:19 PM, Steve Kinney wrote:
   > >
   > > 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.
   > >
   > > :o/
   >
   > 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:
   <[2]http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2011/02/21>

References

   1. mailto:mirimir@riseup.net
   2. http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2011/02/21