FISA Abuse

David · 00:00:00

Y'all understand about metadata, right? This is the record of what your phone, for example, with phone calls, the record of what your phone is doing as far as who called you and who you called or texted without the contents of the conversation. So if somebody who is a shitbag working in a government agency wanted to frame you or simply extend FISA-authorized surveillance on you, which would allow them to invade your privacy, hack into your computers with government tools or access to special telephone networks, for example, because of their position of authority, they could take a list of conversations that it looks like you're having to a FISA court judge and without the contents of the text messages, for example.

So if somebody texts you from a number you don't know and you go and have a back-and-forth conversation with them, I'm sorry, you've got the wrong number. Oh, really? Sorry to bother you. That's okay. Don't worry about it. You know, you're just being nice. And then they engage you in a vanilla conversation. Well, so what are you doing today? Oh, I don't know. I'm bored. I guess I'll talk to you for a minute.

And it turns out that that other conversation, that other person whose number you didn't know is someone scandalous for any reason, say a drug dealer or a prostitute or something like that, something obvious, then this hypothetical shitbag abuser of authority could take that conversation and take it into a FISA court and could present it to a judge and say, now look here, we know this person who's the unknown sender that I'm referring to. We have all this evidence that this person is a prostitute. Or a drug dealer. Or another criminal. And our subject that we're investigating here is having these back and forth conversations with a known drug dealer. Or a known prostitute, for example. So therefore, we need you, this is our evidence, that we need you to extend the FISA court warrant so that we, as shitbag authoritarians who think they have a right to break into our technology and use our FISA court authorizations, they basically frame you.

This is a possibility is what I'm saying. A very real possibility. And is a major problem with metadata collection alone. It sounds harmless, right? Well that judge, even if he wanted, I don't think he can go in and get the content because of the restrictions to just metadata. How's that? How's that for an even tighter safeguard? So if that FISA, if a FISA court judge is actually just sitting on his bench doing his job, I'm not sure he even has access to say, well I want to see the content of this conversation.

This is a real problem. This is why I post these things. I'm not certain that this is happening to me. How could I possibly be, right? I am going to fire off probably a huge round of FOIA requests here very soon. So that is coming. And I may not get, I may not get information back, but I'll get denials and such, such certain kinds of replies they have to make and how long it takes them to reply can reveal enough.

But I just thought I would talk about this for a minute. How important it is that the people who actually work in these systems of government are vetted thoroughly. It's my opinion that they all need to be put through a, a sanity fucking test for narcissism. Because if they score highly, on a mental health evaluation exams for narcissistic personality disorder, they shouldn't be working in our intelligence agencies at all. Or law enforcement. And of any fucking kind. They're dangerous individuals. I'm not suggesting we commit them. I'm far, far away from suggesting people are collected by the state and put anywhere. But as far as holding positions of authority, hell fucking no. It's dangerous.

Do you see how easy this would be to, to frame someone wouldn't require the judge's complicency. All it would require is one person and their assets in the field. Whoever the hell Tyrone is who submitted the contact form, for example, or hell, maybe they could submit it themselves. I'm fucking tired of this shit. I'm so fucking tired of this shit. I haven't done anything to deserve it.