[HN Gopher] When the CIA spied on American citizens, using pigeons
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       When the CIA spied on American citizens, using pigeons
        
       Author : prismatic
       Score  : 24 points
       Date   : 2023-01-11 22:29 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | hammock wrote:
       | Is it legal for the CIA to spy on American citizens?
        
         | Natsu wrote:
         | I mean, the FBI once blackmailed MLK -
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         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93King_suicide_lette...
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         | There was also a lot of uproar about abuses back in the 1970s.
        
           | aliqot wrote:
           | Question was about the CIA. The two are not the same.
        
             | Natsu wrote:
             | * * *
        
         | raincom wrote:
         | Indirectly, yes. They can use foreign intel agencies to spy on
         | Americans; they can use third parties (Twitter, Facebook,
         | cellular networks, your cars, and all data brokers) to spy on
         | you, thanks to the third-party doctrine.
        
         | skyyler wrote:
         | Does legality matter to the CIA?
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         | What entity could bring meaningful complaints against them?
        
           | yodon wrote:
           | See for example [0]
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           | [0]https://www.brown.edu/Research/Understanding_the_Iran_Cont
           | ra...
        
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       | kube-system wrote:
       | Birds aren't real!
        
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         | Oarch wrote:
         | The real conspiracy is the fake conspiracy was real all along!
        
       | annoyingnoob wrote:
       | My 3rd grade teacher was into Pigeon Racing. There were always
       | some that never made it home, attrition was higher than you'd
       | think.
        
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