Greenwald is now recycling his breaking revelations.
His latest:
XKeyscore: NSA tool collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/31/nsa-top-secret-program-online-data
XKeyscore presentation from 2008 – read in full
http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/jul/31/nsa-xkeyscore-program-full-presentation
Slate reported this on July 11:
By Ryan Gallagher
Posted Thursday, July 11, 2013, at 3:46 PM
Over the weekend, O Globo published a handful of new top-secret NSA PowerPoint slides. One of the slides disclosed the existence of an NSA program called “XKEYSCORE,” which appears to involve the mass storage of international Internet metadata—including information about emails, phone calls, log-ins, and other user activity—that can later be mined, or “queried,” by an NSA analyst from a computer.
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Notably, another of the XKEYSCORE slides suggests that the NSA can monitor a person’s Google Maps activity—and use this as a basis to follow up any activity deemed suspicious with further investigation. The slide notes: “My target uses Google maps to scope target locations—can I use this information to determine his email address? What about the Web searches—do any look suspicious?” It adds: “XKEYSCORE extracts and databases these events, including all web-based searches, which can be retrospectively queried.”
It’s unclear how up to date the XKEYSCORE PowerPoints are and whether this program is still active. Either way, the slides are highly revealing. It is possible that they date from pre-2011, before Google made the decision to give all users the ability to encrypt Google Maps sessions using the SSL protocol. Without SSL encryption turned on, which shows in Internet browsers as HTTPS unlike unencrypted HTTP, the information you are sending over the Internet can be intercepted easily by anyone who has access to the data as it is being communicated over a network.
It seems likely that prior to Google adopting SSL for its maps sessions, the NSA was taking advantage of this by mining data about users’ Google activity directly from U.S. and international networks. Information published by the Guardian last month showed that the NSA appears to be collecting billions of what it calls “digital network intelligence” records from Internet infrastructure across the world. Separately, the Associated Press recently reported that the agency is operating a large surveillance program that “snatches data as it passes through the fiber optic cables that make up the Internet’s backbone.”
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http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/07/11/xkeyscore_program_may_have_allowed_nsa_to_spy_on_google_maps_searches.html
Greenwald's evidence for his latest claim is a 2008 report
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023361622
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into mass deflection.
It's not that your "criticisms" have absolutely to do with whether what they leaked or claim is true or not, but are simply attempts to establish how they are baddd baddd men and hope people will therefore not evaluate their claims objectively.
It's us. We can't handle the criticism. 
You really do have an irony impairment. I thought it was an act before.
Where is DU hiding the Elizabeth Warren avatar 
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OMG...you!!! LOL! Good one!!!
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you seem to identify with trolls so much? 
right?
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rare. You on the other hand are trending. 
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It's about the rolling smilie face and some meaningless drivel.
Cheers!
For a Pro it seems like a sluggish mistake IMVHO. 
I give you a gold star for effort though. You are like the little train that could. 
"Wait. Why didn't AP say this was "recycled"?"
Maybe AP didn't see the previous reports or maybe it's a slow news day.
Go read your previous posts.
Are you all rude?
if your spin were true, the "fill in the blank" reason you thought the person was a "furriner" wouldn't be needed -- because if limited the way you say the info returned would only pertain to "furriners."
Remember, it's always ONLY been about metadata. That one worked soooo well and kinda paints out your general credibility.
Has 10 minutes gone by already without a new "I hate Greenwald / Manning / Assange / Snowden" post?
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