From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

Gary Britt wrote:
> Nope, it meets applicable exceptions to these laws, and the patriot act
> reauthorization of 2006 changed the law to make it even more clear that this
> meets those exceptions.  Further, we don't know if they had the FBI issue a
> letter for the records which is another way under the patriot act that
> gathering the records would be possible.  The FBI is free pursuant to
> current law to share the records they get in this manner with other agencies
> including the NSA.
>
Chuckle. Shows how far the PRC has become the thought leader in internal security.

I'm sure lots of Commie Chinese internal security people are laughing &
wondering how come it's taken the US so long to adopt entirely sensible
policies wrt spying on it's civilians as a means of helping "preserve
public order".

Adam

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