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shiven on Aug 26, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Surveillance Engine: How the NSA Built Its Own...

Perhaps proof to the contrary would be more useful than the veracity or logic of an argument?

Unfortunately, with the NSA, independently verifiable proof of anything, especially doing the right thing, is impossible to attain.

mpyne on Aug 26, 2014 [–]

You're asking the parent commenter to prove a negative? Is this what logic has come to at HN?

just1comment677 on Aug 26, 2014 | [–]

Yes, ever since June 2013.

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