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US spy agency built its own secret 'Google-like' search engine

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A top US intelligence agency has built its own secret "Google-like" search engine for about two dozen government agencies to search information through more than 850 billion communications records, including phone calls, emails and internet chats, a media report has said.

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Comments (9)

BernardSwiss ·
Or so they tell us...
JaseP ·
That's another branch that can't find their emails (the IRS),... Convenient-like... isn't it?!?! I guess the more things change (technology), the more they stay the same (corruption).
jdixon ·
All I'll note is that if we used that defense with the IRS, we'd all be in jail for tax evasion.
Bob_Robertson ·
If I heard correctly, the email was all on their Blackberries, which was realized a couple of days after all their Blackberries had been collected and destroyed.
JaseP ·
Quoting: If I heard correctly, the email was all on their Blackberries, which was ACTUALLY SECRETELY realized a couple of days BEFORE, AND MADE THEM DECIDE TO HAVE their Blackberries BE collected and destroyed.


There,... Fixed that for you...
Bob_Robertson ·
Thanks, JaseP. Yes, that does in fact better describe reality.
BernardSwiss ·
I hear that the IRS has finally managed to find theirs.

Maybe they asked the NSA's help in finding them?

jdixon ·
> I hear that the IRS has finally managed to find theirs.

Congress probably threatened their IT folks with jail time if they lied.
Bob_Robertson ·
> if they lied.

Too late.

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