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timscott
on Aug 1, 2013
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NSA Response to XKEYSCORE allegations
What caught my attention was the use of "analytic tools" as a euphemism for "surveillance tools." One could dismiss it as corporate-speak or techie-speak, but it rings in my head more like newspeak, and you know the purpose of that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak
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