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Obama Changed Rules Regarding Raw Intelligence, Allowing NSA To Share Raw Data With US's Other 16 Intelligence Agencies (schneier.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Schneier on Security: President Obama has changed the rules regarding raw intelligence, allowing the NSA to share raw data with the U.S.'s other 16 intelligence agencies. The new rules significantly relax longstanding limits on what the N.S.A. may do with the information gathered by its most powerful surveillance operations, which are largely unregulated by American wiretapping laws. These include collecting satellite transmissions, phone calls and emails that cross network switches abroad, and messages between people abroad that cross domestic network switches. The change means that far more officials will be searching through raw data. Essentially, the government is reducing the risk that the N.S.A. will fail to recognize that a piece of information would be valuable to another agency, but increasing the risk that officials will see private information about innocent people. Here are the new procedures. This rule change has been in the works for a while. Here are two blog posts from April discussing the then-proposed changes.
Now more important that ever. Encrypt everything, no matter how mundane. The government is in a not-so-subtle war against the populace.
It started in 2007, when junior Senator Obama voted to give retroactive immunity to the telecoms caught illegally handing over the data on Americans. Interestingly, this was one of the few times the joker didn't vote "present."
It went downhill from there: legalized data "collection" on all Americans, torture handovers, Arab Spring/ISIS financing, coverups (see Assange/Manning/Snowden persecution), etc.
His latest: expanded NSA power to hand over warantless data on Americans to other agencies.
This week the devil is trying to take away our right to live: 2500 army vehicles moved to Poland, special forces moved to Lithuania... The devil wants to go out with a nuclear bang, it seems.
Obama is the one who started targeting specific American citizens for drone strikes because they were maybe related to a terrorist. Trial? What's that.
And he helped increase all this spying which, as you might remember, is now going into Trump's hands.
Finally, he decides to sabotage Israel on his way out and does his best to start a war with Russia, because apparently it'd be a bad thing if we work with them to crush Isis? Frankly, I don't know what he was thinking with this and it's the most disappointed I've ever been in him since I first voted for the man.