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NSA Purges Hundreds of Millions of Call and Text Records (nytimes.com)

Posted by msmash on from the how-about-that dept.

schwit1 shares a report: The National Security Agency has purged hundreds of millions of records logging phone calls and texts that it had gathered from American telecommunications companies since 2015, the agency has disclosed. It had realized that its database was contaminated with some files the agency had no authority to receive. The agency began destroying the records on May 23, it said in a statement. Officials had discovered "technical irregularities" this year in its collection from phone companies of so-called call record details, or metadata showing who called or texted whom and when, but not what they said. The agency had collected the data from a system it created under the USA Freedom Act. Congress enacted that law in 2015 to end and replace a once-secret program that had systematically collected Americans' domestic calling records in bulk. The National Security Agency uses the data to analyze social links between people in a hunt for hidden associates of known terrorism suspects.

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  1. Of course... by Oswald+McWeany · · Score: 4, Informative

    Sure. The NSA is purging data- just like Kim is purging North Korea's nuclear program. Both are very believable.

    I'm sure the NSA is just making a show of deleting data whilst backing it up in another database with more stringent security needed to get access to.

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    "That's the way to do it" - Punch
    1. Re:Of course... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      Yeah, 17 indictments and 5 guilty pleas but it's a witch hunt. All in about a year less time than the Benghazi investigation which netted zero indictments let alone any pleas. It's really falling apart.

    2. Re:Of course... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

      Moscow Donald is falling apart on twitter whining and crying that hi co-conspirators have been indicted and plead guilty and that he's been caught red-handed committing treason, colluding with a hostile foreign adversary's attack on our country.

      Cry me a river, you fucking traitors.

  2. Lock Him Up...with Trump's Campaign Manager! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Donald Trump's campaign manager is sitting in prison right now, and their are many guilty pleas from his co-conspirators.

    So I guess your post is nothing more than bullshit designed to defend the worst traitors in history.

  3. Re:Destroying evidence by houghi · · Score: 3, Informative

    Accountability is an important word. Without it, most of what happens is although not legal, allowed.

    If I tell a toddler not to take a cookie and it does and then I do nothing, just repeat that he is not allowed to take another one, what will be the result?
    The resulkt is that I am frustrated and that is about it.

    So they can easily say "Yeah, we did something illegal ..." Followed by a ".. and what are yopu going to do about it?" Till now nothing has been done. Not really.

    Compared to the toddler and his cookies, what we have done is punnish the dog for eating some crumbs that would not be there if no cookies would have been stolen.

    I honestly can not blame them. Why should they do things correctly? This way works for them without any serious downside. And voting them away does not help as both parties don't do anything as we have seen in the last 20 and more years.

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    Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
  4. Lock Him Up! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    So you are claiming that a congressional committee stacked with traitors is more credible than a guilty plea by the 'unregistered foreign agent' himself...

    Donald Trump's Russia connected campaign manager is in prison right now, and the Republican treason team you are so fond of can't do anything about it.

      Treason isn't just illegal. It's wrong.

    Lock him up!