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Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts) Fri Aug 16, 2019, 02:00 PM Aug 2019

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Trump wants to permanently reauthorize NSA to access domestic calls

The is the GRANDADDY MASTERPIECE of my famed "Greenwald and Snowden were unavailable for comment" -series... Now we have literally gone full circle.

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Trump wants to permanently reauthorize NSA to access domestic calls (Original Post) Blue_Tires Aug 2019 OP

He's asking Congress to do this? gratuitous Aug 2019 #1

good. I have some comments about him I want him to hear. EveHammond13 Aug 2019 #2

So, um, how do Julian Assange and Edward Snowden feel about this? Downtown Hound Aug 2019 #3

Literally the dumbest Prez ever, this exposes everyone he knows bigbrother05 Aug 2019 #4

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)

1. He's asking Congress to do this?

Reply to Blue_Tires (Original post)

Fri Aug 16, 2019, 02:03 PM

Aug 2019

What, is he wimping out on his executive authority? Why doesn't he just reauthorize it himself?

EveHammond13

(2,855 posts)

2. good. I have some comments about him I want him to hear.

Reply to Blue_Tires (Original post)

Fri Aug 16, 2019, 02:04 PM

Aug 2019

Downtown Hound

(12,618 posts)

3. So, um, how do Julian Assange and Edward Snowden feel about this?

Reply to Blue_Tires (Original post)

Fri Aug 16, 2019, 02:05 PM

Aug 2019

After all, wasn't that one of the reasons why Assange preferred Trump over that evil Hillary?

bigbrother05

(5,995 posts)

4. Literally the dumbest Prez ever, this exposes everyone he knows

Reply to Blue_Tires (Original post)

Fri Aug 16, 2019, 02:12 PM

Aug 2019

Limits on NSA are the only things keeping his family out of jail.

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