Ex-NSA bod sues US govt for 'illegally spying' on Americans: We drill into 'explosive' 'lawsuit' In an extraordinary and expansive lawsuit, former CIA and NSA contractor Dennis Montgomery has teamed up with the lawyer who brought down the NSA's mass surveillance operation – Larry Klayman – to sue all the US intelligence services and their former and current heads personally, as well as former president Barack Obama, for …
Oh, yes, get the popcorn.
What happens if there turns out to actually be some sort of case here, and the various insiders are called to give evidence, and the court finds in Mr. Montgomery's favour?
It doesn't seem very likely, but these weirdos might just be doing the American people a favour here.
I am reminded of Close Encounters of the Third Kind when Richard Dreyfuss's character (Roy) joins a group of folk questioning the authorities about the strange events witnessed and reported.
In a nice bit of acting, you can see Dreyfuss's face drop and his fervour get replaced with disappointment and resignation as one of his fellow petitioners explains how he "saw bigfoot once".
The message matters, but the messenger can sometimes matter just as much.
Although classic proxies for such a question would be how man information requests they answered for LEO's like the FBI and DEA and how many people were mentioned in those
My guess to both questions (if actually answered) would be "quite a lot."
As in In The First Circle.
Those who read this extraordinary novel will know what I am referring to.
Yes, in 1968 USSR, landline telephones would click and make weird noises when the KGB would listen in and record the phone call.
In 2000's US of A, this doesn't happen on cellular or wireless communications. Or landline communications for that matter.
I should have used the black helicopter icon, but I refuse to do so.
NSA will not upgrade your smartphone in the middle of the day, so that it's guaranteed you notice. They can easily do this at night, while you're sleeping. If they even have a need to install something on the device, which is highly doubtful.
Intercepting a wireless communication doesn't require installing spyware on the smartphone, or plugging in wired connectors in some dark basement. And it doesn't cause weird clicking sounds on the line.
So, Larry, your phone may have rebooted and updated itself in the middle of the day, and may have started making weird clicking sounds, but that's not the NSA listening on your phone calls. It's just your smartphone going bust.
"a liberal mainstream media conspiracy to keep the people uninformed and ignorant as their representatives continue to wipe their asses with the Constitution and spit on the graves of the Founders."
Sounds about right.
We know that Stingray devices illegally listen in on unwarranted individuals, all in the name of justice of course.
We know that the various TLA agencies have access to our online computer usage from hard lines, and likely from our cell connections as well. Just in case we might have links to terrorism or something.
All approved by closed courts with no oversight.
Mainstream press does very little to call out these violations of civil rights. Lawmakers are in the know and do nothing except pretend to be outraged once in a while and vow that they are going to "Do Something." only, something never happens and we are expected to forget about it in a day or so.
And these guys are the crazy ones...
It's remarkable how often the "mainstream" media actually have reported on something that various wingnuts from all parts of the political spectrum claim they haven't. A quick gander through this search, for example, will show that arguably non-mainstream sources such as The Intercept show up in great numbers, but so do a variety of more mainstream sources. If our lawmakers don't do anything about it, it's because the average person is busy being outraged about something else (and there's plenty to be outraged about, as reported in, you guessed it, the mainstream media).
Just because you're not paying attention doesn't mean it's not happening.
Anything to distract from Trump's troubles I guess.
This guy suing is an obvious nutter. The FBI may do many things, but I've never heard of them tying someone to a tree! They have handcuffs, and vehicles, surely they'd lock him in the back seat if he didn't sit still for a search of his house. And pretty sure the FBI Director doesn't make promises to investigate stuff to an individual charged with crimes, I guess the voices in his head told him Comey promised.
Also, if he was serious he should have added to that list president Trump and former president Bush, as the president currently in charge of the illegal spying, and the president in charge when it originated!
These are the same 50 hard drives that Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio while under oath said contained junk.
"Since then, experts hired by the MCSO [Maricopa County Sheriff's Office] have said the hard drives are worthless and do not contain sensitive information."
"Sargent Anglin [MCSO deputy sheriff] said Montgomery was given deadlines to prove that he had CIA-harvested data. The sergeant got Montgomery an extension on his deadline at one point. But Montgomery never produced, and the offer of immunity apparently lapsed." Stephen Lemons, "Joe Arpaio, Mike Zullo Targeted Judge, Sergeant Testifies" in Phoenix New Times, Saturday October 15, 2015
In court, the two experts were identified as ex-NSA computer experts Thomas Drake and Kirk Weibe.
All I have learned in law over 30+ years in the Perfidious Albion, is that there is no law; in that there are only 2 groups of people; One group who make plenty of money out of espousing laws, and far more people who don`t, and are punished for not knowing laws, or breaching them for being punished too often. Its why male suicide in the UK is off the charts. Biggest killer of men under 50. QED: The government/Judicial system causes suicide.
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