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• On the post: Dianne Feinstein Plays The 9/11 Card For Why The NSA Should Keep Spying On Every American

  

  dcfusor ( profile ), 15 Oct, 2013 @ 05:47pm

  Blackmail explains a lot

  Via Occam's razor.
  
  Even a brain dead NSA bureaucrat would instantly figure to get the dirt on the easiest to blackmail group on the planet if that's where their purse strings come from and they had those powers. Explains quite a lot of the cheer-leading. FWIW, they're not all brain-dead.
  
  Feinstein, for example, has access to insider information and is married to a stock trader...I leave the rest as an exercise for the student.

• On the post: Lawyer Who Gave President Bush Legal Cover For Warrantless Wiretapping Now Claims We'll Come To Love An Intrusive NSA

  

  dcfusor ( profile ), 14 Oct, 2013 @ 10:26am

  Nice when shills self-identify

  Title says it all.

• On the post: Apple Makes Questionable Copyright Claim To Pull Down iTunes Contract

  

  dcfusor ( profile ), 14 Oct, 2013 @ 07:43am

  Like Microsoft's NDA?

  That prevents companies they settle with for "using their patents in linux and android" so no one can find out what those patents are and break them in court?
  
  Litigation over innovation is where we've landed, since companies no longer think growing the pie is worthwhile, just trying to grab a larger slice of a shrinking one.
  
  It's only a growth business for lawyers and other parasites.