Feinstein: Metadata Program Here To Stay

[Purveyor]

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) predicted Sunday that lawmakers who favored shutting down the bulk collection of telephone metadata would not be successful in their efforts as Congress weighs potential reforms to the nation’s controversial intelligence programs.

“I don’t believe so,” Feinstein said during an appearance on NBC's “Meet the Press.” “The president has very clearly said that he wants to keep the capability… So I think we would agree with him. I know a dominant majority of the — everybody, virtually, except two or three, on the Senate Intelligence Committee would agree with that.”

On Friday, the president announced a series of modest reforms to the top-secret surveillance programs, including a new requirement mandating intelligence agencies obtain judicial approval before reviewing databases of information about telephone calls.

He also ordered members of his administration to figure out a way to end the federal collection of the phone records, with the data instead likely to be held by telephone companies or a third party.

Feinstein conceded that requirement could prove “a very difficult thing” to work out logistically, because without a centralized database, the efficacy of searches could be eroded.

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/195899-feinstein-metadata-program-here-to-stay#ixzz2qsg3JSql

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1. In that case, there are numerous "representatives" that need to go

[Warren Stupidity]

2. Luckily Diane Feinstein (D-WarMachine) isn't.

[Thinkingabout]

3. Metaldata's weakest link is rogue employees who authorize themselves as owners of the data

And move the data to be used for purposes it was never intended to be used. The story becomes clear day by day, thanks to those in charge who knows why the NSA program works for holding strong.

[MannyGoldstein]

4. When did it work?

Thanks in advance.

[Thinkingabout]

5. As reported this information is not shared with American public and will not be shared.

After all this is our security departments at work.

[neverforget]

11. Lol! Trust us!

Imagine a President Christie with this information.

[Thinkingabout]

19. Imagine Edward Snowden getting the information, oh, we know what happens, he steals the

Files and delivers them to a foreign source. What if it was a rogue provider employee? We don't hear of many if those cases do we?

BTW, Christie had the power to request wiretaps, it was in his job as prosecutor. Did Snowden have wiretap privileges in his job, see there is a difference. Christie did not steal files from the NSA and deliver them to foreign sources.

[neverforget]

22. I guess that's one way to rationalize the NSA spying.

[Thinkingabout]

24. Do you have a better idea then present it. Technology improves everyday and NSA

Would welcome a better mouse trap.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

6. Who pays for the NSA? We, the owners of the country? Or, the MIC and politicians?

[randome]

13. Four levels of approval are needed to view the metadata.

So fears of 'rogue employees' are remote. As evidence of that, recall that Snowden was unable to get at any of the personal data. All he stole were internal NSA documents.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]“If you're not committed to anything, you're just taking up space.”
Gregory Peck, Mirage (1965)[/center][/font][hr]

[Thinkingabout]

18. Interesting, he said he could sit at his workplace and get on any phone line and wiretap it,

do you think he lied when he said this or is he lying later.

[randome]

20. Of course he lied. If he could do what he said, why not give us proof?

I don't think he had any nefarious motives such as spying for Russia. I think he was just an isolated loner who couldn't see things outside his own head. He never finished anything in life, including high school, so he fits that kind of profile, IMO.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]“If you're not committed to anything, you're just taking up space.”
Gregory Peck, Mirage (1965)[/center][/font][hr]

[bemildred]

7. Right, until it is changed. nt

[woo me with science]

8. Dianne Feinstein, (D-Fascist)

I never thought I would see my country come to this.

[PowerToThePeople]

9. Totalitarian, does not deserve to be a citizen of "the land of the free"

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

[bobduca]

10. "the efficacy of searches could be eroded. "

That's the point you military industrial complex parasite. (My Senator!)

[KoKo]

12. DiFi....she never fails to disappoint...but then,

her "connections and benefits" are what drive her...not the good of the country and the freedom of the people.

[Pisces]

14. THey will do whatever they have the capability to do. With or without legal permission.

The public just needs some outrage and they will swallow the sugar pill that tightening is happening etc, etc.
Meanwhile it is business as usual because this is how the US stays ahead of other countries and
protects us. Whatever evercise they go through in the media, courts etc. is just a nice show for the people.
It's called the Placebo Effect.

There are so many smart people on this board that know what I am talking about. Governments have been spying since they could drill holes in walls. The technology has allowed for a lot more than we could ever imagine. Privacy is an illusion that we will never have again.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

15. Good.

Now I would like to do a metadata search for the term "lucrative-government-contract"

Any guesses on what will show-up?

[ConcernedCanuk]

16. NSA seems to have overlooked the obvious

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There are lots of "geeks" hackers" "nerds" or whatever you want to call them that can amass data on the NSA/MIC/PNAC et al,

and not shy to share it.

This global spying is gonna backfire on the 1%

bigtime.

soon.

CC

[MineralMan]

17. She's probably right. It will probably continue.

Some additional restrictions may well be applied to it, but collecting that kind of intelligence is what NSA does. A lot of people were surprised at the actual capability, and a lot of people became worried that the NSA might be following their own communications. A lot of people were outraged at that idea.

There will probably be changes, but the NSA will, no doubt, continue to collect signals intelligence. I can't imagine that will stop.

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23. it will all continue

either legally or with some super-secret status, which did exist, with politicians suddenly concerned when it is exposed, suddenly eager to fix things - what a show. I can't believe anyone could be fooled by it.

The tech exists, the structure exists, we created it, and it will be used.

It hasn't ceased being used.

[frwrfpos]

21. shes a tool of the 1%

The nsa love must continue.