• Uriel238 [all pronouns]
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    21 hours ago

    Oh it turns out we needed NSA to do its actual fucking job after all rather than holding onto exploits for the surveillance state.

    Now — for the second time — we have an adversarial administration eager to weaponize government departments while Americans are vulnerable. Why? Because America is the good guys and would never abuse its extrajudicial powers (say, by detaining, rendering and torturing Americans with names similar to those of POIs.)

    We could have had twenty-four years of robust communications security developments if NSA didnt sell the public out like Judas.

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        11 hours ago

        Extraordinary Rendition is the euphemism from the aughts from which the movie Rendition was titled. It means taking your detainee somewhere else, often across national borders, to a black site, usually to do things there for plausible deniability (e.g. we don’t torture in the United States )

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          10 hours ago

          Looks like I missed that movie, I’ll have to check it out.

          And I don’t think I’ve ever heard the term “rendering” used in that context, I guess we just used other terminology. Thanks!