re: #24 Ah_Yup

The key question here in my view is missing from his “analysis”: exactly what are they searching through? Looking at the map and the description in the power point along with what he have heard from previous leaks and Bamford stories I get the impression that they are getting huge data dumps from key points on the Internet backbone. He wants to make it look like we are all being watched but it looks like they are not fishing through data on the Internet within the US. But anything going to or coming from the States is getting watched. This is still a BFD because most of the major worldwide services like Facebook and Google are in the US. Not illegal but it would sure piss me off if I lived in ,say, Europe.

I really wish Greenwald would stop overreaching because this raises important questions. He’s just to busy exaggerating to ask them.

Glenn’s painted himself into a corner here. He’s got the emoprogs and the faux-libertarians in so much of a tizzy with his exaggeration and hyperbole that if he backed down and admitted even half of what he’s said is BS, they’d hang, draw, and quarter him.