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True story: the CIA station I worked at in Europe had an enormous, wall-to-wall, floor-to-ceiling World Map because even career intelligence officers often had no idea where Country X was located.
The number of new arrivals who confused Sweden and Switzerland would astonish you. twitter.com/SameeraKhan/st…
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Handcuffs. twitter.com/JuddLegum/stat…
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You can't routinely take classified material home (itself a crime):
…from 1973-2009 ("docs dating from his time as a Senator"),
…again from the WH (2009-2017),
…report it only after somebody ELSE stumbles across your stash
…and claim it's OK bc 𝙣𝙤𝙬 you're "cooperating"
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If you work at the CIA or NSA, don't let a security officer write you up for failing to secure a document within the safe.
Instead, inform them that recent policy demonstrates that DOJ may accept your home, corvette, random college, or underwear drawer as an approved container.
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I don't think you should miss this one.
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/all-seeing-i
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The reasoning behind the old "I have nothing to hide" defense of surveillance abuses is humiliating, if you think it through.
Essentially:
1) Only those who stand out are targeted
2) I do not stand out
3) I cannot stand out
4) Phew, I'm safe
weird flex but ok
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Well, I guess now we know where the student debt relief funds went. twitter.com/Reuters/status…
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Don't mess with Greta. twitter.com/GretaThunberg/…
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How is it possible that I have fewer classified documents in my house than the last few White House admins?
The Espionage Act is a "strict liability" crime: good intentions are no defense. Under the (dumb) law, these guys are all unindicted criminals.
foxnews.com/politics/vice-…
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The media is beginning to write with noticeably more skepticism about @Apple's plan to transform your iPhone into a spyPhone. Keep pushing! mediaite.com/news/edward-sn…
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The billionaire former CEO of Goldman Sachs came out of Twitter retirement specifically to gloat about corporate control of Congress. twitter.com/lloydblankfein…
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The FBI assigned so many agents to search for ways to deplatform accounts they didn't like (by gaming Twitter's Terms of Service) that it was even making the FBI's former top lawyer uncomfortable. The FBI's former top lawyer **who had left to go work at Twitter.** twitter.com/mtaibbi/status…
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Someone may have put a lot on the line to warn you of this. It doesn't matter who they are or why they did it: their role is complete.
What matters now is how you respond.
apnews.com/article/suprem…
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They literally re-arrested him on the day of his trial. For those keeping note: yes, they re-arrested a man already in prison. This entire process is less trial than Soviet joke. twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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I recall that the Department of Justice was somewhat less generous when I self-reported, even after I went to the trouble of doing so on the front page of every major newspaper in the world.
s m h twitter.com/DailyCaller/st…
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He doesn't actually *know* if you've been bad or good, but historically speaking, people who engage in these kinds of unconstitutional activities (like @NSAGov) simply *pretend* to know. Instead, they make a guess and then kill people on the basis of that guess.
Merry Christmas.
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"‘Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.’ He did not mean a real and generous love of our country, but that pretended patriotism which so many, in all ages and countries, have made a cloak for self-interest." twitter.com/alfredmalmros/…
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The humorous side of this very serious story is that even after two apocalyptic offshore finance/law firm leaks, those industries are still compiling vast databases of ruin, and still secure them with a Post-It Note marked "do not leak."
Hats off to the source!
#PandoraPapers
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Hat tip to @BankerWeimar, whose ongoing "Do you think the CIA still does this?" memes sent me looking for old interviews of all the former employees the CIA sued into silence.
twitter.com/BankerWeimar/s…
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man who revealed government violated your rights mad that government again violating your rights
yes yes very suspicious i hope everyone can see through that twitter.com/atrupar/status…
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Big: The @Apple #spyPhone scandal grows as its own employees begin to turn against its plan to force over one billion iPhones to begin scanning for digital contraband in iOS 15. Apple describes the new system as "expanding protections for children."
reuters.com/technology/exc…
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Holy shit twitter.com/kgosztola/stat…
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I'm afraid I have some bad news: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_su… twitter.com/MichLKosinski/…
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