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"Because this particular military spy organisation is being deployed by the US government against its own citizens, en masse"

But it's not. That's the problem. There's no evidence whatsoever of it doing that.

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So you're telling me there's no evidence that the NSA has committed call logs of every US Verizon subscriber to their own persistent storage for later inspection? No evidence that NSA intercepted inter-datacenter transfers of American companies, who were housing the personal data of Americans? No evidence that Americans have been swept up in overly-broad "one foreign end" wiretaps? All of the weakdh.org people are crazy? That well-documented room in the AT&T building in San Francisco was just a big misunderstanding?

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