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In reply to the discussion: The Latest Snowden Leak Is Devastating to NSA Defenders [View all]randome
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One: many of the individual emails may not have identifying info on them. I mean how would they know that randome16@gmail.com is an American citizen?
Two: it would probably take a lot of man hours to go through every email or contact reference to verify whether or not they are American or a suspect or what not.
So if they collect all of a suspect's communications, they are bound to get a mass of data not pertinent to a terrorist threat or whatever. A few thousand communications stored away in case it turns out later that randome16 was the leader of a terrorist cell? Out of how many billions of emails transmitted daily?
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