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hughee99

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21. Yes and the none-of-your-business belongs on

Reply to yallerdawg (Reply #20)

Wed Jul 11, 2018, 05:21 PM

Jul 2018

Last edited Thu Jul 12, 2018, 09:01 AM - Edit history (1)

Your own device. Every company is up-front about that, do you think the government isn’t? If a kid on his first day on the job can understand it, don’t you think a government employee with a law degree can too?

The idea that you think this is an example of blanket surveillance tells me that there’s no way I’m going to convince you that you’re wrong, and no way you’re going to convince me that you’re right.

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What kind of a country do we live in... yallerdawg Jul 2018 #1

She/they used their government accounts. No privacy violation. SharonAnn Jul 2018 #5

We are allowed to carry on private conversations. yallerdawg Jul 2018 #6

You don't have any expectation of privacy using your government hughee99 Jul 2018 #7

You're going to insist on missing the point. yallerdawg Jul 2018 #8

No, it's you that are conflating two issues. You're talking about the "surveillance state" like the hughee99 Jul 2018 #9

Read asshole's twitter comments about "the lovers." yallerdawg Jul 2018 #11

You are conflating the "surveillance state" with the government having access to the correspondance hughee99 Jul 2018 #13

Asshole's public "twitter comments have nothing to do with it." yallerdawg Jul 2018 #16

If you think that assholes twitter comments are hughee99 Jul 2018 #17

Of course. yallerdawg Jul 2018 #18

When you have a private conversation in a venue where you have no hughee99 Jul 2018 #19

There IS an expectation of privacy. yallerdawg Jul 2018 #20

Yes and the none-of-your-business belongs on hughee99 Jul 2018 #21

Sorry, no roscoeroscoe Jul 2018 #26

Private legal lawful exchanges between persons... yallerdawg Jul 2018 #27

But I imagine you have an expectation of not being dragged in front of a Congressional committee meadowlander Jul 2018 #10

We've been down this road before (not you and I)... hughee99 Jul 2018 #12

I think it's up to her meadowlander Jul 2018 #14

I think that congress needs to provide an adequate scope and reasonable amount of time to prepare, hughee99 Jul 2018 #15

Oh my GOD! get the red out Jul 2018 #2

Did you see the Great Leader's tweet about this??.... riversedge Jul 2018 #23

Saw that get the red out Jul 2018 #25

I do think Trump is mentally ill. Serious. riversedge Jul 2018 #28

How many of the Scarsdale Jul 2018 #3

No Way Puppyjive Jul 2018 #4

The article does not say that Chairman Goodlatte has provided her with any documents. If it were me riversedge Jul 2018 #22

Aren't we ALL in contempt of congress? joanbarnes Jul 2018 #24