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Yahoo Scanning Order Unlikely To Be Made Public: Reuters (reuters.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Obama administration officials briefed key congressional staffers last week about a secret court order to Yahoo that prompted it to search all users' incoming emails for a still undisclosed digital signature, but they remain reluctant to discuss the unusual case with a broader audience. Executive branch officials spoke to staff for members of the Senate and House of Representatives committees overseeing intelligence operations and the judiciary, according to people briefed on the events, which followed Reuters' disclosure of the massive search. But attempts by other members of Congress and civil society groups to learn more about the Yahoo order are unlikely to meet with success anytime soon, because its details remain a sensitive national security matter, U.S. officials told Reuters. Release of any declassified version of the order is unlikely in the foreseeable future, the officials said. The decision to keep details of the order secret comes amid mounting pressure on the U.S. government to be more transparent about its data-collection activities ahead of a congressional deadline next year to reauthorize some foreign intelligence authorities. On Tuesday, more than 30 advocacy groups will send a letter to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper asking for declassification of the Yahoo order that led to the search of emails last year in pursuit of data matching a specific digital symbol. The groups say that Title I of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, under which sources said the order was issued, requires a finding that the target of such a wiretap is probably an agent of a foreign power and that the facility to be tapped is probably going to be used for a transmission. An entire service, such as Yahoo, has never publicly been considered to be a "facility" in such a case: instead, the word usually refers to a phone number or an email account.
Maybe apple will draw the Escape key in the "magic" keyboard when the terminal application is running.
And now we know what Obama meant when he claimed that he'd run the most transparent administration in history: absolutely nothing. Just remember, a vote for Hillary is a vote for four more years of lies, evasions, secret warrants and other unconstitutional actions.
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Stop writing headlines like that. It should be Source: What the source said. Stop reversing the order of that because then it makes no sense.
Re 'Stop reversing the order of that because then it makes no sense."
The mission is to make spying read as been not illegal.
The more words that are used in a big submission and hints like "foreign power" make it sound more legal and distract from the vast illegal domestic spying.
Terms like "declassified version" hints that it had oversight and was Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act like and all very legal.
The "order was issued" under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is more about preventing domestic legal teams and protected whistleblowers getting domestic traction and press.
All data was sorted and it was legal due to all the foreigners and been an "order" any domestic Fourth Amendment protections get removed.
Its not domestic spying when its presented as "data-collection activities".
Think of matching a "specific digital symbol" as a very foreign emoji that only interesting foreigners would use and its not domestic spying.
Remember its all legal as the color of law will reauthorise some foreign intelligence authorities again soon.
Use enough parapgraphs and domestic spying is totally legal under color of law and if it was an order.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
how long will take wikileaks to get it out?
Secret laws made by secret courts are as valid as the public record they are published in.
These seem really extreme measures.
So they should be targeting really bad guys.
The interesting question is how far they strayed from this goal.
This is a third party test of the theory that we have boy scouts choosing carefully when to use these extreme measures that new technology provides.
If they got past the second or possibly third entry on the list below, then it seems a bad tradeoff to me.
If they got to the end, then at least there is a clear test result.
Not sure what the test list should be, but here's a stab.
Much worse than 911. (>> thousands of folks)
At least as bad as 911. (thousands of folks)
Large scale human trafficking. (hundreds)
Minor crazies like a guy with a gun. (tens)
Nationwide drug or money issues.
Minor drug or money issues.
Political enemies.
I can see that there are operational reasons to not release the actual search criteria in the short term, but Yahoo should at least be able to say where they are on the list. If they can't, perhaps that's a test result as well?
Trump got labeled anti-Hispanic, anti-Muslim, and anti-Latino because he wants to close the border and fix immigration. He was labeled anti-black for reasons I have yet to be able to find. He was labeled anti-woman for calling Rosie O'Donell a fat pig (which she is) and Hillary nasty which she is. The rest is called being a man and talking like a man. If you were a man or a woman you would have had similar talks, but you are either a Eunice or liar pretending you never talked about the hot gender you are attracted to.
99% of the bullshit about Trump being some sort of "ist" or "phobe" is hysterical bullshit from a biased media feeding you trash. The populace that believes it is too stupid to listen to a speech on their own or read a transcript, and they eat the shit shoveled out by media and politicians.
Grats on being a shit-eater.
This was just Big O trying to lend a hand to Hillary at the taxpayers expense to try and find out where all of those nasty Russians that keep on showing the world what an idiot she is are hiding.
Next up, a "facility" will be expanded to include "the Internet". Later it will be expanded to include "all digital communications", and eventually it will come to mean "all communications, by anyone, using any means, at any time."
Who cares if a facility means none of those things? All that matters is that the Three Letter Agencies get everything they want, even it trespasses against all citizens and provides no demonstrable intelligence value to the TLAs. The real utility here is the expansion of power, budget and headcount to the TLAs.