True, I've found this particularly maddening until I just accepted these are all spiritually sick and lost people, it's not surprising they're not principled or even consistent.
HAS THE TRUMP ERA REALLY DAMAGED OUR THINKING TO THIS DEGREE?”: “...cases like this have turned erstwhile liberals – people who just a decade ago were marching in the streets over the civil liberties implications of Cheney’s War on Terror apparatus – into defenders of the spy state.”
THE NATSEC HAMMER TO POUND DOWN ANY SIZE NAIL: “That any information about Swartz was collected during an Al Qaeda investigation—only to be retrieved nearly two years later for totally unrelated purposes—adds a familiar and sympathetic face to a controversial procedure in intelligence gathering commonly referred to as a “backdoor search.” That is, the FBI gathering information about Americans who are not accused of crimes, often without a warrant; storing that information in databases, sometimes for years; and later accessing it during the course of another investigation that ultimately has nothing to do with terrorism whatsoever. (Backdoor searches are most commonly associated with Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act, an authority that was unavailable to the FBI at the time.)
How specifically the FBI came to possess Swartz’s email data remains unclear. But after reviewing the document and other related files, several legal experts told Gizmodo the most likely explanation was that the FBI had used a National Security Letter (NSL), a ubiquitous tool for obtaining email header data at the time. An NSL would have enabled federal agents to demand access to the data and then impose a gag order to maintain secrecy around the investigation, all without a judge’s approval.
...In response to a later email raising the possibility that a National Security Letter was used to acquire to data on staff and students, a PITT spokesperson replied: “I’m afraid we have no comment.” The spokesperson would also not say whether the University had a policy of challenging the government gag orders that accompany NSLs, which are designed to prevent people and institutions from ever notifying the public about the letter’s existence.
In 2007, the FBI would not have required a warrant to obtain the email headers from a public university. The Patriot Act, passed in the wake of the September 2001 terrorist attacks, significantly lowered the threshold for using NSLs and also made them much easier to acquire by expanding the number of FBI officials who could sign them. Today, the most senior agents at the FBI’s 56 nationwide field offices—special agents in charge (SAC)—are able to approve the use of an NSL...
NSLs may be used, however, to acquire evidence in pursuit of secret warrants issued under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), for developing evidence prior to the initiation of a terrorism investigation, and to corroborate information obtained by other means.
While the FBI informed Gizmodo that its use of such tools is governed by legal statutes and guidelines established by the U.S. Attorney General, the bureau has routinely violated and misinterpreted those guidelines, according to the DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel and the FBI’s own inspector general. Notably, these abuses were rampant around the time that the FBI appears to have acquired the PITT email data.
Between 2003 and 2006, the FBI reported the issuance of more than 192,000 letters, according to 2009 testimony before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary. However, the FBI’s inspector general also determined that this figure was also inaccurately low. A review of four field offices revealed the reported number of letters was, in fact, 22 percent lower than the actual number of letters issued.”
Same FBI/DOJ framed Ross Ulbricht as well. Tampered evidence, made up murder-for-hire to smear him and prejudice the jury and public opinion. The whole place is rotten. Drain the swamp!
So fucking retarded how easily they trade away their beliefs for political rumors and shaming away a populist who loves them and isn't a RINO or DINO. Fags. All of them.
You're not ex anything. I don't have the time nor inclination, but you couldn't be further from the truth. Your stupid as fuck mindset is a part of what is wrong in the current political climate and world.
True, I've found this particularly maddening until I just accepted these are all spiritually sick and lost people, it's not surprising they're not principled or even consistent.
HAS THE TRUMP ERA REALLY DAMAGED OUR THINKING TO THIS DEGREE?”: “...cases like this have turned erstwhile liberals – people who just a decade ago were marching in the streets over the civil liberties implications of Cheney’s War on Terror apparatus – into defenders of the spy state.”
https://thedonald.win/p/Ffp7XZKC/has-the-trump-era-really-damaged/c/
https://archive.org/details/TheInternetsOwnBoyTheStoryOfAaronSwartz
^^^ great watch ^^^
rip aaronsw
fuck kn0thing and spez
They don't want to get "suicided" either.
He may have been Epsteined. He discovered a huge trove of child porn on official MIT servers before he died. Weird coincidence?
THE NATSEC HAMMER TO POUND DOWN ANY SIZE NAIL: “That any information about Swartz was collected during an Al Qaeda investigation—only to be retrieved nearly two years later for totally unrelated purposes—adds a familiar and sympathetic face to a controversial procedure in intelligence gathering commonly referred to as a “backdoor search.” That is, the FBI gathering information about Americans who are not accused of crimes, often without a warrant; storing that information in databases, sometimes for years; and later accessing it during the course of another investigation that ultimately has nothing to do with terrorism whatsoever. (Backdoor searches are most commonly associated with Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act, an authority that was unavailable to the FBI at the time.)
How specifically the FBI came to possess Swartz’s email data remains unclear. But after reviewing the document and other related files, several legal experts told Gizmodo the most likely explanation was that the FBI had used a National Security Letter (NSL), a ubiquitous tool for obtaining email header data at the time. An NSL would have enabled federal agents to demand access to the data and then impose a gag order to maintain secrecy around the investigation, all without a judge’s approval.
...In response to a later email raising the possibility that a National Security Letter was used to acquire to data on staff and students, a PITT spokesperson replied: “I’m afraid we have no comment.” The spokesperson would also not say whether the University had a policy of challenging the government gag orders that accompany NSLs, which are designed to prevent people and institutions from ever notifying the public about the letter’s existence.
In 2007, the FBI would not have required a warrant to obtain the email headers from a public university. The Patriot Act, passed in the wake of the September 2001 terrorist attacks, significantly lowered the threshold for using NSLs and also made them much easier to acquire by expanding the number of FBI officials who could sign them. Today, the most senior agents at the FBI’s 56 nationwide field offices—special agents in charge (SAC)—are able to approve the use of an NSL...
NSLs may be used, however, to acquire evidence in pursuit of secret warrants issued under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), for developing evidence prior to the initiation of a terrorism investigation, and to corroborate information obtained by other means.
While the FBI informed Gizmodo that its use of such tools is governed by legal statutes and guidelines established by the U.S. Attorney General, the bureau has routinely violated and misinterpreted those guidelines, according to the DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel and the FBI’s own inspector general. Notably, these abuses were rampant around the time that the FBI appears to have acquired the PITT email data. Between 2003 and 2006, the FBI reported the issuance of more than 192,000 letters, according to 2009 testimony before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary. However, the FBI’s inspector general also determined that this figure was also inaccurately low. A review of four field offices revealed the reported number of letters was, in fact, 22 percent lower than the actual number of letters issued.”
https://gizmodo.com/fbi-secretly-collected-data-on-aaron-swartz-earlier-tha-1831076900
Nigga died for J-Stor. Probably a lot of kids on college campuses have no idea what the fuck that is.
Sad but true story.
Perhaps it goes a whole lot deeper, like his stumbling upon an MIT pedo ring... https://rense.com/general95/swartz.html
Same FBI/DOJ framed Ross Ulbricht as well. Tampered evidence, made up murder-for-hire to smear him and prejudice the jury and public opinion. The whole place is rotten. Drain the swamp!
"suicide"
Aaron Schwartz didn't kill himself.
u/Spez is a cuck.
So fucking retarded how easily they trade away their beliefs for political rumors and shaming away a populist who loves them and isn't a RINO or DINO. Fags. All of them.
You're not ex anything. I don't have the time nor inclination, but you couldn't be further from the truth. Your stupid as fuck mindset is a part of what is wrong in the current political climate and world.