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The FBI is tasked with cases on US soil involving US persons.

How does that that give the FBI legitimacy to record phone calls of US citizens?

Ever hear about the mafia and RICO laws? It is 100% legal to listen to phone conversations with a warrant. If you have evidence of wholesale FBI phone call collection and eavesdropping I'd love to see it.

I already linked you the evidence in my previous post. Stop being purposely obtuse. At this point you just seem to be part of another NSA program. [1]

I'll just quote the lead:

> The US military is developing software that will let it secretly manipulate social media sites by using fake online personas to influence internet conversations and spread pro-American propaganda.

And more recently, GCHQ's JTRIG program. [2]

Again, I'll quote:

> (The core self-identified purposes of JTRIG is to) use social sciences and other techniques to manipulate online discourse and activism to generate outcomes it considers desirable

[1]: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-ope...

[2]: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipula...

That is illegal? I see propaganda every time I flip by Fox News.

Stop downvoting what you disagree with....

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