<story><title>Greenwald: Low-Level NSA Analysts Have Powerful and Invasive Search Tool [video]</title><url>http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/07/glenn-greenwald-low-level-nsa-analysts-have-powerful-and-invasive-search-tool/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>northwest</author><text>&lt;i&gt;“I was back out at NSA just last week, spent a couple hours out there with high and low level NSA officials,” Chambliss said. “And what I have been assured of is that there is no capability at NSA for anyone without a court order to listen to any telephone conversation or to monitor any e-mail.”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;How _dumb_ must one be to continue to trust these agencies for just about anything, now? After they blatantly lie in Congress and then dare to &amp;quot;apologize&amp;quot; for lying in Congress, how much more do these &amp;quot;politicians&amp;quot; really need to start thinking for themselves?&lt;p&gt;Have they already been lobotomized? Are they lizards? Or what else exactly is going on?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hga</author><text>Errr, given how easy it appears to be to get a &amp;quot;court order&amp;quot; (note, that&amp;#x27;s not as high a bar as a &amp;quot;search warrant&amp;quot;), I don&amp;#x27;t have as much difficultly believing that&amp;#x27;s the case.&lt;p&gt;The case today, that is; tomorrow....&lt;p&gt;(Technical note: right now I gather the NSA et. al. are making a distinction between Hoovering up &amp;quot;everything&amp;quot;, like all of Verizon Business&amp;#x27;s call records in that blanket warrant we&amp;#x27;ve seen, and actually looking at them.  Infamously, &amp;quot;collection&amp;quot; only referrers to the latter act.  Just like how inside a decrease from an automatically increased baseline, even an increase after inflation, is called a &amp;quot;cut&amp;quot;.)</text></comment>
<story><title>Greenwald: Low-Level NSA Analysts Have Powerful and Invasive Search Tool [video]</title><url>http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/07/glenn-greenwald-low-level-nsa-analysts-have-powerful-and-invasive-search-tool/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>northwest</author><text>&lt;i&gt;“I was back out at NSA just last week, spent a couple hours out there with high and low level NSA officials,” Chambliss said. “And what I have been assured of is that there is no capability at NSA for anyone without a court order to listen to any telephone conversation or to monitor any e-mail.”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;How _dumb_ must one be to continue to trust these agencies for just about anything, now? After they blatantly lie in Congress and then dare to &amp;quot;apologize&amp;quot; for lying in Congress, how much more do these &amp;quot;politicians&amp;quot; really need to start thinking for themselves?&lt;p&gt;Have they already been lobotomized? Are they lizards? Or what else exactly is going on?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drewcrawford</author><text>&amp;gt; How _dumb_ must one be to continue to trust these agencies&lt;p&gt;Taking a deep breath for a moment, if you look at TFA it contains two contradicting allegations, from sources that appear to me to be roughly similarly credible.&lt;p&gt;On what evidentiary basis have you decided one source is more reliable than the other?  And why are the people who believe the other source &amp;quot;lobotomized&amp;quot;?&lt;p&gt;I am not really sure what is going on here, but I do not feel that this article alone presents a sufficient basis for a reasonable person to form an opinion.</text></comment>