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<blockquote data-quote="RDKirk" data-source="post: 77208023" data-attributes="member: 326155"><p>There was so much misunderstanding and conflation of completely difference situations in that massive paragraph.</p><p></p><p>Snowden was never <em>discovered</em> to be leaking information secretly, he uncovered it publicly.</p><p></p><p>In order for the NSA to use its methods to search for a suspected leak, there must first be the suspicion of a leak, and moreover, very specific suspicion of a specific leaker or the information that was leaked. The NSA can't just say, "We think there may be a leak, we want to check everybody." They have to use search tools that will follow a specific individual who they already come to suspect by other means or certain information that they know was leaked.</p><p></p><p>If they don't know the individual, they have to search for the specific elements of a known leak, which, in fact, they did in this case. They knew what information had been leaked and searched specifically for that information. Once they found where that information had been posted, they started tracking down who had access to it and who posted it.</p><p></p><p>But if they don't have anything specific to search for, they can't get a search warrant. That's no different from a search of a citizen's home...the warrant has to specify who, where, what, and why, and it must <strong>limit </strong>the search to those factors.</p><p></p><p>And a person is not a suspected leaker just because he holds a security clearance. The NSA has more than enough work to do tracking real, live, known enemy activities. Adding to that the continuous job of tracking all the thousands of people who hold security clearances--who have no reason to be suspected of a crime--would be absurdly impractical.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RDKirk, post: 77208023, member: 326155"] There was so much misunderstanding and conflation of completely difference situations in that massive paragraph. Snowden was never [I]discovered[/I] to be leaking information secretly, he uncovered it publicly. In order for the NSA to use its methods to search for a suspected leak, there must first be the suspicion of a leak, and moreover, very specific suspicion of a specific leaker or the information that was leaked. The NSA can't just say, "We think there may be a leak, we want to check everybody." They have to use search tools that will follow a specific individual who they already come to suspect by other means or certain information that they know was leaked. If they don't know the individual, they have to search for the specific elements of a known leak, which, in fact, they did in this case. They knew what information had been leaked and searched specifically for that information. Once they found where that information had been posted, they started tracking down who had access to it and who posted it. But if they don't have anything specific to search for, they can't get a search warrant. That's no different from a search of a citizen's home...the warrant has to specify who, where, what, and why, and it must [B]limit [/B]the search to those factors. And a person is not a suspected leaker just because he holds a security clearance. The NSA has more than enough work to do tracking real, live, known enemy activities. Adding to that the continuous job of tracking all the thousands of people who hold security clearances--who have no reason to be suspected of a crime--would be absurdly impractical. [/QUOTE]
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