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leveymg

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6. If you believe what has been written about Echelon, "farming out" was the basis of the UKUSA

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Thu Apr 5, 2012, 10:02 AM

Apr 2012

Agreement. Once upon a time, before the PATRIOT Act, we had our allies read our communications, and we read theirs, as a way around prohibitions on domestic spying. Now, since the 4th Amendment has been scrapped, that isn't really much of a consideration. But, we still farm it out, and one of the farm teams is Israel - which is why Lieberman and AIPAC were such strong backers of the 2008 FISA Amendment that legalized most of these domestic spying practices.

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Shady Companies With Ties to Israel Wiretap the U.S. for the NSA [View all] midnight Apr 2012 OP

Fascism of the most dangerous sort. Have we learned orpupilofnature57 Apr 2012 #1

Yep.... We have learned that the watchers will be watching the watchers.... midnight Apr 2012 #2

Will America just let this shit go on? (It's a rhetorical question) think Apr 2012 #3

This goes back to the '95 CALEA law when Israeli firms had a monopoly on this technology leveymg Apr 2012 #4

Yes... The article points that out. But while using technology from foreign countries is not new midnight Apr 2012 #5

If you believe what has been written about Echelon, "farming out" was the basis of the UKUSA leveymg Apr 2012 #6