NSA Twice Chose to Forgo Privacy Protections in Domestic Data Mining Programs

While Jane Mayer's profile on NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake has generated a lot of attention for the way Obama's DOJ is senselessly prosecuting him, there has been less focus on the key revelation that Drake and others went on the record to reveal in Mayer's story: that the NSA chose not to integrate the privacy protections from a program called ThinThread into its illegal domestic surveillance program.

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