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In reply to the discussion: They're manpulating us right into a "frickin" Tea Bagger veto proof majority [View all]okaawhatever
(9,479 posts)has the third installment of a trilogy she is doing on domestic surveillance coming out soon. Guess who has provided her with information? William Binney, a 32 yr nsa employee. Sound familiar? It gets better. Who wrote a story about it before now? Glenn Greenwald. It seems that all of this is regurgitated information that didn't find traction last time. The case went to the supreme court late 2012 and was ruled on feb of 2013. Maybe she was hoping for a scotus ruling for her documentary and it didn't go anywhere. Here's an excerpt from Wikipedia:
On August 22, 2012 The New York Times published an Op-doc in a forum of short documentaries produced by independent filmmakers that was produced by Laura Poitras and entitled, The Program.[8] It is preliminary work that will be included in a documentary planned for release in 2013 as the final part of the trilogy. The documentary is based on interviews with William Binney, a 32-year veteran of the United States National Security Agency, who became a whistleblower and described the details of the Stellar Wind project that he helped to design. He states that the program he worked on had been designed for foreign espionage, but was converted in 2001 to spying on citizens in the United States, prompting concerns by him and others that the actions were illegal and unconstitutional and that led to their disclosures. The subject implies that the facility being built at Bluffdale, Utah is a facility that is part of that domestic surveillance, intended for storage of massive amounts of data collected from a broad range of communications that may be mined readily for intelligence without warrants.
HELLO FOLKS, this was published in Aug of 2012. Hmmm