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Re: PRISM Update: NYT says WaPo a bit credulous
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dobbins, Roland)
Sat Jun 8 02:23:51 2013
From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2013 06:23:19 +0000
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On Jun 8, 2013, at 10:11 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> Well, ok, they don't actually *say* that, but it's the underlying idea be=
hind their own piece, which says that the listed companies didn't really gi=
ve NSA quite such unfettered access
There's another potential explanation:
from <http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/08/technology/tech-companies-bristling=
-concede-to-government-surveillance-efforts.html?pagewanted=3Dall>
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'Tech companies might have also denied knowledge of the full scope of coope=
ration with national security officials because employees whose job it is t=
o comply with FISA requests are not allowed to discuss the details even wit=
h others at the company, and in some cases have national security clearance=
, according to both a former senior government official and a lawyer repres=
enting a technology company.'
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