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devil21
11-17-2013, 08:57 PM
Hello shadow government.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/11/17/nsa-grapples-with-988-increase-in-open-records-requests/3519889/


Fueled by the Edward Snowden scandal, more Americans than ever are asking the NSA if their personal life is being spied on.

And the NSA has a very direct answer for them: Tough luck, we're not telling you.

Americans are inundating the National Security Agency with open-records requests, leading to a 988% increase in such inquiries. Anyone asking is getting a standard pre-written letter saying the NSA can neither confirm nor deny that any information has been gathered.

"This was the largest spike we've ever had," said Pamela Phillips, the chief of the NSA Freedom of Information Act and Privacy Act Office, which handles all records requests to the agency. "We've had requests from individuals who want any records we have on their phone calls, their phone numbers, their e-mail addresses, their IP addresses, anything like that." moreatlink

Tough job Ms. Phillips has :rolleyes:

parocks
11-17-2013, 09:35 PM
hate this

Mani
11-17-2013, 09:46 PM
So several thousand people have been giving requests over the last few months, and 20 days the NSA must get back to them according to the law.

And they are backlogged and barely able to give the "no comment" letter within 20 days.


Imagine if 1,000 people DAILY submitted the forms and asked. There's no doubt they would be able to satisfy the 20 day window. That would be one violation right there.


But besides that, the whole, "No comment" letter should be unacceptable. It would be nice if these several thousand people all filed class action law suits with all those privacy organizations behind them and force this organization to fold under pressure.

Danke
11-17-2013, 09:49 PM
Everyone should assume they are on some list. BFD, organize on the local level.

idiom
11-17-2013, 09:54 PM
http://i.imgur.com/T3Id9pj.png

devil21
11-17-2013, 11:29 PM
So several thousand people have been giving requests over the last few months, and 20 days the NSA must get back to them according to the law.

And they are backlogged and barely able to give the "no comment" letter within 20 days.


Imagine if 1,000 people DAILY submitted the forms and asked. There's no doubt they would be able to satisfy the 20 day window. That would be one violation right there.


But besides that, the whole, "No comment" letter should be unacceptable. It would be nice if these several thousand people all filed class action law suits with all those privacy organizations behind them and force this organization to fold under pressure.

So the moral of the story is that NSA needs MOAR MONEY AND MOAR STAFF in order to tell everyone to go fuck themselves in a timely manner.

Mani
11-17-2013, 11:38 PM
So the moral of the story is that NSA needs MOAR MONEY AND MOAR STAFF in order to tell everyone to go fuck themselves in a timely manner.



Government.. It's the growth industry. There will be a time when everyone works off of the big govt TEET.

fr33
11-18-2013, 12:03 AM
"What do you have to hide? If you're not doing anything wrong, then don't worry!"

Lobbyists write the laws. What you spend your money on, or talk about spending your money on, is stored, monitored, and reacted upon. Welcome back to 1984. Every American is a suspected terrorist. The NSA is keeping you safe. Their logic is that you are only alive because they know what you are doing right now.

NorthCarolinaLiberty
11-18-2013, 12:23 AM
So the moral of the story is that NSA needs MOAR MONEY AND MOAR STAFF in order to tell everyone to go fuck themselves in a timely manner.

Don't forget more money for 4 star hotels, 4 star restaurants, good alcohol, and 15 year old Asian girls.

devil21
11-18-2013, 02:31 AM
I bet most of these requests are based on pending court cases. I remember an article a few months ago about a defendant in a criminal case that was going to subpoena his NSA file after it was revealed that NSA was tipping DEA but DEA wasn't disclosing that as part of discovery. I wonder if these "requests" are actually legal subpoenas that NSA is denying?