Thanks a lot asshole: With only days remaining in office, Obama announced new rules that will let the NSA share private data gathered without warrant, court orders or congressional authorization with 16 other agencies, including the FBI, DEA and DHS.

Three letter agency here: bureaucratically speaking I dont think it has really any usefulness for an outstanding FISA warrant as named agencies would be working pretty quickly on such a top level issue. If youre referring to setting up Trump for failure by hoping he repeals this while his team is under warrant, creating bad optics, maybe but I dont see that happening lol

(personal aside, this shit is stupid and came as a shock to offices on Friday , 0 reason for raw/unfinished intel to traded btwn agencies--if u want raw sigint that bad, chances are NSA already translated/reported anything remotely useful for foreign intel/CT, esp with SIGINT where I dont trust competence of non-big-three [NSA/CIA/FBI] to get masking/selectors right in avoiding US person coverage. and why EO12333 instead of starting with FAA 702 as a baby step which by nature does not have US infrastructure under drag net ? its literally so baffling no one here can parse the reason why--i know im in a sub where people will say "duh police state" but even considering that, it feels like grandiose incompetence as its doomed to backfire interally and in PR

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