Comments on: US requests for secret spying warrants rose to nearly 2K in 2011, and not a single one was rejected http://boingboing.net/2012/05/03/us-requests-for-secret-spying.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sun, 26 May 2013 00:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Ito Kagehisa http://boingboing.net/2012/05/03/us-requests-for-secret-spying.html#comment-1414727 Ito Kagehisa Fri, 04 May 2012 19:49:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=158432#comment-1414727  Well, it is a bee beetle.  Although not a drone.  Well, it is a bee beetle.  Although not a drone.

]]> By: Ito Kagehisa http://boingboing.net/2012/05/03/us-requests-for-secret-spying.html#comment-1414726 Ito Kagehisa Fri, 04 May 2012 19:48:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=158432#comment-1414726  It looks like a Bee Scarab, Trichius fasciatus - I think it's cute too.  It looks like a Bee Scarab, Trichius fasciatus – I think it’s cute too.

]]> By: Mantissa128 http://boingboing.net/2012/05/03/us-requests-for-secret-spying.html#comment-1414240 Mantissa128 Fri, 04 May 2012 13:58:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=158432#comment-1414240 That is the cutest little bug, though. That is the cutest little bug, though.

]]> By: quarterman http://boingboing.net/2012/05/03/us-requests-for-secret-spying.html#comment-1414158 quarterman Fri, 04 May 2012 11:44:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=158432#comment-1414158 Hope and change! Hope and change!

]]> By: Bonnie Ash http://boingboing.net/2012/05/03/us-requests-for-secret-spying.html#comment-1414120 Bonnie Ash Fri, 04 May 2012 11:01:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=158432#comment-1414120 I get the whole "You're bugged" visual thing, but wouldn't a bee drone be better than a beetle.  After all, drones mindlessly rubber stamp the warrants.  And drones patrol the skies "protecting" the citizenry. I get the whole “You’re bugged” visual thing, but wouldn’t a bee drone be better than a beetle.  After all, drones mindlessly rubber stamp the warrants.  And drones patrol the skies “protecting” the citizenry.

]]> By: R_Young http://boingboing.net/2012/05/03/us-requests-for-secret-spying.html#comment-1413898 R_Young Fri, 04 May 2012 04:18:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=158432#comment-1413898 Everyone on BoingBoing who has an interest in the state of the secrecy in the government should be reading Steven Aftergood's blog.  It's really incredible, and he releases quite a few good reports from the Congressional Research Committee that are difficult to get.  He also covers Drones, classification, Drone war and other military enterprises, and everything having to do with government secrecy.   I cannot recommend it enough. Everyone on BoingBoing who has an interest in the state of the secrecy in the government should be reading Steven Aftergood’s blog.  It’s really incredible, and he releases quite a few good reports from the Congressional Research Committee that are difficult to get.  He also covers Drones, classification, Drone war and other military enterprises, and everything having to do with government secrecy.  

I cannot recommend it enough.

]]> By: Deidzoeb http://boingboing.net/2012/05/03/us-requests-for-secret-spying.html#comment-1413724 Deidzoeb Fri, 04 May 2012 01:46:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=158432#comment-1413724 Yay, they're requesting warrants again! Rule of law is restored-ish! Remember the last time you heard an announcement about some dictator winning an "election" by 98.3 percent of his population (as reported by official state media), and you wondered how anyone in the world could seriously think it was not rigged? It's too sad to even bother doing the math on this one. Yay, they’re requesting warrants again! Rule of law is restored-ish!

Remember the last time you heard an announcement about some dictator winning an “election” by 98.3 percent of his population (as reported by official state media), and you wondered how anyone in the world could seriously think it was not rigged? It’s too sad to even bother doing the math on this one.

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