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• Sep 17th, 2013 @ 11:57am

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  on NSA Needs To Give Its Rank-and-File New Talking Points Defending Surveillance; The Old Ones Are Stale
  Ha! Good point, Dave. Poor Roger isn't allowed to read the Washington Post, and he definitely isn't allowed to go anywhere near Techdirt.
• Sep 17th, 2013 @ 11:54am

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  on WA Legislators Get A Free Pass On Speeding Tickets During Legislative Sessions
  I would totally agree with issuing the ticket without detaining the legislator. That seems fair.
  
  But of all the things to worry about, this is pretty damn far down the list.
• Sep 17th, 2013 @ 10:31am

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  on WA Legislators Get A Free Pass On Speeding Tickets During Legislative Sessions
  Oh, for fuck's sake! Why is everyone acting like this is a big deal?!
  
  1. It's not specific to Washington. Just about every state has some version of that same law.
  
  2. The Federal government has the same law.
  
  3. It's a really good idea. Would you like police to be able to harass and detain your elected representatives in order to prevent their votes?
  
  4. It's not a get out of jail card. Any felony, including DUI, manslaughter, etc., is not included. It's just civil traffic stuff.
  
  5. How many times has this even been a factor? Wake me when we have some legislator in a Ferrari setting speed records on I5 just because he feels like it.
• Sep 11th, 2013 @ 10:36am

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  on New Leak Shows NSA Shares Raw Domestic Communications Data With Israeli Intelligence
  Has anyone considered that this data exchange could be a creative way to get around the limitations on spying on Americans:
  
  1) collect massive data on Americans, but don't read it due to FISA restrictions.
  2) give giant block of data to Israel
  3) 1 week later, Israel gives us back a giant block of data...which includes what we gave them.
  
  Now the data on Americans is laundered to look like something the Israel intelligence collected. Would that be outside FISA's control?