monitoring Trump and relevant contemporary events

OVERVIEW OF THE PRIVACY ACT OF 1974

No agency shall disclose any record which is contained in a system of records by any means of communication to any person, or to another agency, except pursuant to a written request by, or with the prior written consent of, the individual to whom the record pertains [subject to 12 exceptions].” 5 U.S.C. § 552a(b).


Taylor v. Orr, No. 83-0389, 1983 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 20334, at *6 n.6 (D.D.C. Dec. 5, 1983) (addressing alternative argument, stating that: “Implied consent is never enough”...[A] protected privacy interest can be waived only by the person whose interest is affected, . . . The OMB Guidelines caution that “the consent provision was not intended to permit a blanket or open-ended consent clause, i.e., one which would permit the agency to disclose a record without limit,”

The Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 (ECPA) extended government restrictions on wire taps from telephone calls to include transmissions of electronic data by computer (18 U.S.C. § 2510 et seq.), added new provisions prohibiting access to stored electronic communications, i.e., the Stored Communications Act (18 U.S.C. § 2701 et seq.), and added so-called pen/trap provisions that permit the tracing of telephone communications (18 U.S.C. § 3121 et seq.).

The ECPA extended privacy protections provided by the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (of employers monitoring of employees phone calls) to include also electronic and cell phone communications.

From the documents leaked by ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden, it became well known that various governments have been running programs to tap all kinds of communication at massive scales, including email. While the legality of this is still under question, it is certainly clear that the email of citizens with no ties to a terrorist organization have been intercepted and stored. Whistleblower and former National Security Agency (NSA) employee William Binney has reported that the NSA has collected over 20 trillion communications via interception,[30] including many email communications, representing one aspect of the NSA warrantless surveillance controversy

A national security letter (NSL) is an administrative subpoena issued by the United States government to gather information for national security purposes. NSLs do not require prior approval from a judge.

By law, NSLs can request only non-content information, for example, transactional records and phone numbers dialed, but never the content of telephone calls or e-mails.

The arguments which rely on what the agreements DON'T say are irrelevant. You can't be deemed to have waived your constitution rights just because you didn't demand, in advance, that they not be violated.

That claim appears to conflict with the agreement the Trump transition entered with GSA before the election, which contains no obvious prohibition on GSA providing law enforcement officials with transition documents, no provision denoting the documents as being the property of the transition team.

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The memorandum of understanding between the GSA and Trump— advises the Trump transition that “Office of the President-elect staff members will be required to individually sign and accept [government furnished] laptop and Smartphone while accepting IT Rules of Behavior to safeguard the assets and the integrity of the network infrastructure.”

Those rules of behavior include a privacy waiver, which notes that, “Users have no expectation of privacy on GSA IT resources since all activities are subject to monitoring.”

Heh. Nice try, cheese eater.

"KEY TRUMP-RUSSIA LINK," I tellya!

People talking to you as if they give a crap

3. Likewise, (to address an argument advanced in another post) acknowledging that the GSA had the right to "audit" and "monitor" the use of it's resources to protect against waste, fraud, and theft, is not a CONSENT to confiscate all your private emails. I have already cited authoritative articles which clearly state, for example, that even if a tenant gives (consents to) a landlord a right to "inspect" his premises for limited management purpose, that consent CANNOT be used to justify an warrantless search for evidence of a crime. Same deal here.

GSA will supply furniture and office equipment to the Office of the President-Elect. The rent for this "turn-key" office space....is chargeable to the Presidential Transition Act funds...

We can safely assume that the "deep state" includes the MSM, in collusion with the "secret" services, or most of them.

But, but...G-Bag worked for the government!

We do it because guys like you would screw it up beyond redemption.

More links between ‘Russiagate’ probe team & Hillary surface

Serious questions have been raised over the independence of Robert Mueller’s investigation into allegations of Russian meddling in last year’s US presidential election. This follows fresh reports of strong links between members of the investigating team and Hillary Clinton and her aides.

Investigator Aaron Zebley – often referred to as Mueller’s “right-hand man” after having served as the former FBI director’s chief of staff – acted as an attorney for Justin Cooper, the IT staffer who installed Clinton’s private email server at her home, and who destroyed her old Blackberry phones with a hammer, a Fox News report states.

Documents obtained by the news outlet reportedly reveal that, Zebley, who was also a senior counselor in the National Security Division at the Department of Justice, “stonewalled” senate investigators following requests to interview him during their probe into Clinton.

"We are troubled by [Zebley’s] complete refusal to engage the committee in a discussion about how to further assuage your concerns,” congressional investigators complained in a letter to Cooper.

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We do it because guys like you would screw it up beyond redemption.

Yes, making tea and collecting lunch orders is a yuuuuuuuuge responsibility, and not for the faint of heart.

OMG, how did you manage? It must have been terrifying.

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OMG, how did you manage? It must have been terrifying.

I can see why you stayed as tea lady for 32 years. Not too bright kiddo.......