re: #10 celticdragon

This is where the claims from Snowden start becoming a little more alarming. I thought the NSA has maintained all along that they are not really looking at specific google searches etc and were just getting “metadata”

Whatever happened here is almost certainly from the FBI, not the NSA, if it’s from any three letter agency.

My spouse and I have been googling all kinds of crazy shit relating to forensic chemistry (she just turned in her final exam tuesday) including chemical formulas for different types of high explosives (like HMX and PETN) and high they decompose /react…fingerprinting methods…drug testing methodology and the metabolites of various narcotics…and DNA testing via electrophorsis.

So when do I get the knock on my door?

Well, that’s the thing. I have a horrific google search history, given my interests in terrorism, world war II, natural philosophy, etc. And yet I don’t get a visit. I doubt, in the wake of the Boston bombings, if everyone who googled ‘pressure cooker bomb’ got a visit. I know that the DOJ doesn’t consider searches to be ‘metadata’, so that kind of makes me think this came from an active wiretap, but the FBI could be delving into that metadata grey area. But even if they are: they can’t possible be interviewing everyone, with six guys, that did an internet search for pressure cooker bombs and backpacks.