You don’t want the US to spy on all the countries spying on it?
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Absolutely.
First, still having the FISA courts means there’s “some” oversight.
Second, something like 7000 FISA warrants were issued last year. That sounds like a lot. But divide by 365 days a year and country wide that’s about 19 a day. Or less than 4 a week for any given state. We all know there’s more shit going down on a given day than that.
For all the hype and concern and drama it just doesn’t seem like the government is using this all powerful surveillance ability all that much.
Think this through. The system Snowden (the Russian asset) made some of you hyper vigilant about didn’t even raise a flag about Snowden himself. It didn’t catch him emailing reporters, buying plane tickets, texting his girlfriend, none of it.
Then there’s Jan 6th. Those yokels planned their riot in facebook groups. Aaaaand nothing happened. No black helicopters, no swat teams, nothing.
For as powerful and onerous as this system is supposed to be and as much as everyone in r/conspiracy seems to think it is pointed at them…. a whole lot of shit still goes down that doesn’t get pre-empted Minority Report style.
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Never was.
You don’t want the US to spy on all the countries spying on it?
Absolutely.
First, still having the FISA courts means there’s “some” oversight.
Second, something like 7000 FISA warrants were issued last year. That sounds like a lot. But divide by 365 days a year and country wide that’s about 19 a day. Or less than 4 a week for any given state. We all know there’s more shit going down on a given day than that.
For all the hype and concern and drama it just doesn’t seem like the government is using this all powerful surveillance ability all that much.
Think this through. The system Snowden (the Russian asset) made some of you hyper vigilant about didn’t even raise a flag about Snowden himself. It didn’t catch him emailing reporters, buying plane tickets, texting his girlfriend, none of it.
Then there’s Jan 6th. Those yokels planned their riot in facebook groups. Aaaaand nothing happened. No black helicopters, no swat teams, nothing.
For as powerful and onerous as this system is supposed to be and as much as everyone in r/conspiracy seems to think it is pointed at them…. a whole lot of shit still goes down that doesn’t get pre-empted Minority Report style.