Sadly true.
A good example from this year:
https://theintercept.com/2021/02/22/capitol-riot-fbi-cellpho...
>...the FBI relied in some cases on emergency orders that do not require court authorization in order to quickly secure actual communications from people...
I remember back in the day when this would outrage people.
After all, it's a conspiracy theory, which means it's verboten.
The press ran the story in my opinion half heartedly and imo forgave the transgressions because it was Obama in at the time. Most of the kick was directed right or wrong back to Bush.
It’s not like Brennan or Clapper or Rice or Yates ever faced even a degree of heat for directly lying to Congress about domestic spying.
I don’t at all disagree we live in a different world now, I just don’t have a perspective that this specific example was really that big at the time. Blurbs and tweets and Snowden Celebrity withstanding, the leaks had little to no actionable effect I can recall. I could be forgetting though.
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