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In reply to the discussion: Eighteen years ago, when my oldest child first started going on the internet, I remember telling her [View all]Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)62. Nowhere in that does he threaten to expose names of agents
and he hasn't that anyone knows of. In fact, it has been alleged, even on du, that he exaggerated his knowledge and didn't have access to names.
All the information he has passed on so far was really common knowledge by anyone paying attention.
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Eighteen years ago, when my oldest child first started going on the internet, I remember telling her [View all]
pnwmom
Jun 2013
OP
the analogy to email is mail, not garbage on the street. and fyi, you can be arrested for
HiPointDem
Jun 2013
#1
no, what we write at home is NOT private, and that is the point at issue. the bit about
HiPointDem
Jun 2013
#22
Are you not "sharing" your thoughts here at DU? Do you not "share" personal info on social media?
Hekate
Jun 2013
#24
you said email and i wrote about email. email is not 'sharing'. political forums like du are
HiPointDem
Jun 2013
#27
Yes, but I wasn't expecting the government to be keeping tabs on everything I do.
Quantess
Jun 2013
#41
Shocked? Why do you think people are shocked when we were all here after the leaks that exposed
sabrina 1
Jun 2013
#10
+1. you put your finger on what is most annoying about that post. it at once trivializes the
HiPointDem
Jun 2013
#14
There have been a lot of people expressing shock. One of them was Snowden himself.
pnwmom
Jun 2013
#11
Since when are China and Russia our allies? They are trading partners, not allies.
pnwmom
Jun 2013
#19
I agree -- we need much better protections. And I don't do things like banking online,
pnwmom
Jun 2013
#16
exactly, we are being *forced*. today i spent most of the day trying to get services for
HiPointDem
Jun 2013
#17
There really is more than one issue here. Spying is a word that is used to create
okaawhatever
Jun 2013
#20
"those of you participating in character assassinations of people for past doings"?
pnwmom
Jun 2013
#30
Valerie Plame was an "asset" and so is every spy and every connection out there.
pnwmom
Jun 2013
#39
A network IS a network of agents, plus their foreign associates.A network is made up of human beings
pnwmom
Jun 2013
#59
I said earlier that I hoped he'd been lying about having access to the full roster
pnwmom
Jun 2013
#63
I was entitled to my irrational paranoia about on-line privacy and they took that away from me
corkhead
Jun 2013
#31
The problem is the wretched excess, everybody knows, but this is stupid and obsessive.
bemildred
Jun 2013
#33
We have not been going after everyone in the world. We have been tracking terrorists,
pnwmom
Jun 2013
#40
Meh, not shocked that OUR money by the billions goes towards collecting data on us citizens
The Straight Story
Jun 2013
#45
Strange OP. So if it is not brand new it can not be bad? How can anyone be shocked at a
Bluenorthwest
Jun 2013
#64