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In reply to the discussion: The Latest Snowden Leak Is Devastating to NSA Defenders [View all]blackspade
(10,056 posts)You're making an argument that is not based on the facts.
This is not an 'Obama' scandal per se, rather this is a systemic problem that goes beyond the current administration.
Attempting to link this to Obama apparently serves two purposes for the authoritarians at DU; it allows the unconstitutional seizure of protected data of Americans to continue under the smokescreen of 'ODS' and ties Obama to a scandal that he inherited from the Bush years which only serves to justify the RW hate for the man.
So, from my perspective, your continued linking of Obama to this obvious systemic problem within one of the most powerful agencies in the US government only serves to further erode confidence in his presidency.
But as a conservative, that is your mission correct?
As for your word salad:
"As with all Obama "scandals", this has turned from overwrought misrepresentation of what could have legitimately been a concern, into a farce. Apparently now, the "scandal" has devolved into people keeping backups of old forgotten data on their computers.
Are you aware that every embarrassing tweet, every "sext", every purple prose email you've ever written, is almost certainly on someone's backup somewhere? Like google's? No? "
What is your point? That people have forgotten data on their computers? Personal backups are available to the NSA? Company databases for tweets, e-mail, facebook posts, etc are all compromised by the NSA?
What is it? If that is what you are alluding too, THAT is a scandal and exactly what the problem is all about.