[Infowarrior] - Judge Says NSA Can Continue To Destroy Evidence

[Richard Forno]

Judge Says NSA Can Continue To Destroy Evidence

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140606/16063627499/judge-says-nsa-can-continue-to-destroy-evidence.shtml

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About an hour before the hearing, the DOJ presented its opposition to the temporary restraining order, arguing, basically, that it would be too damn complicated to stop destroying evidence in the case. Part of this is because the data collected under the Section 702 program apparently isn't just one big database, but is quickly fed into all sorts of other systems.

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In short: because we're ordered to delete some data by the law to avoid spying on Americans, to now ask us not to delete any data would violate the law that says we have to delete some data. And, to figure out how to do this would be crazy confusing, because the NSA is a giant bureaucratic machine of spying, and you can't just throw a rock into it like that. Or something:

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