re: #11 Killgore Trout

The latest Snowden leak is going to cause some problems.
Document shows surveillance of US law firm

At least this is going to cause some legal problems unless there was some legit reason for it. I suspect we’re going to see some more NSA reforms in the near future.

That article is rather murky. It says the an Australian agency did the surveillance and then told the NSA through an NSA Australian office. Then it goes on to say “The U.S. agency is then required to follow so-called minimization rules to protect their privacy, such as deleting the identity of Americans or information that is not deemed necessary to understand or assess the foreign intelligence, before sharing it with other agencies, the paper reported.” Is that not backwards? It wasn’t the NSA that shared it with the Australians, it was the other way around, and the Australians may not have the same rules of stripping out the info.

I’m not implying it is right to do what was done, by there seems to be some liberties taken in the facts and intentions in that piece. Maybe I’m seeing that wrong…been staring at a computer screen all day and I am getting eye fatigue.

I see Justanotherhuman sort of saw it the same way. Is it wiggle room, or is it the author working to get some outrageous outrage…which is a big topic these days