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Old Sep 13, 2017, 12:45 pm
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GUWonder
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Originally Posted by GUWonder
Snowden publicly confirmed what was already mostly known by some. And what he revealed publicly confirmed to more that the NSA didn't have it all then either. And they still don't have it all. And even much of what they have isn't as much a risk to Americans' freedom as what the CBP can do to Americans' freedom, even if the NSA were to have it all.

The NSA playing law enforcement officer in the US using warrantless NSA means to target Americans? Not a significant risk compared to CBP warantless searches being used for law enforcement purposes in the US to target Americans.

It's DHS/CBP's searches that generate the greater threat to Americans' freedom in the US. NSA is more extensively restricted in legal and practical terms with what can be done with data it gets when it comes to law enforcement use against Americans than DHS/CBP is.

Conspiracy theorists may be obsessed with our proverbial spooks going after Americans, but the ones to watch out for in government are the people formally and generally engaged in law enforcement in the US; the latter are the greater and more immediate danger to your freedom.
DHS/CBP's searches of passenger electronics' contents at ports of entry/exit are game in court:

https://www.aclu.org/legal-document/...duke-complaint
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