[HN Gopher] The U.S. Government's Most Powerful Spying Tool Is F...
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       The U.S. Government's Most Powerful Spying Tool Is Fighting for Its
       Life
        
       Author : ironyman
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2023-12-09 21:06 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | ironyman wrote:
       | archive/paywall: https://archive.is/1r8Wa
        
       | gloyoyo wrote:
       | They've gotta have this down to a checkbox by now, right?
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       | U.S./Non-U.S.
        
         | skygazer wrote:
         | I think the persistent issue is the identifying US/non-US
         | partipants and the co-mingling of US/non-US participants within
         | exchanges, and the need to understand context to make sense of
         | it. This seems inescapably fraught. And further complicated by
         | their desire to still pursue Americans for inadvertently
         | discovered crimes, resorting to parallel construction to avoid
         | revealing questionably obtained evidence.
        
       | kamikazeturtles wrote:
       | > even as the U.S. faces renewed concerns about terrorism in the
       | Middle East.
       | 
       | Looks like we're gonna see another +$2 trillion dollar go down
       | the drain again. A new war would probably involve Iran in some
       | way. Interesting that there are no kamikaze drone startups in the
       | US because that's probably the next unicorn opportunity.
       | 
       | I'm muslim so I probably can't work on this startup idea in my
       | garage. But I'm surprised other American startups aren't trying.
        
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