{"id":6193,"date":"2014-12-08T09:30:58","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T17:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/?p=6193"},"modified":"2026-03-19T14:01:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T21:01:15","slug":"nsa-we-kill-people-based-on-metadata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/nsa-we-kill-people-based-on-metadata\/","title":{"rendered":"NSA: \u201cWe kill people based on metadata.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Astounding admission<\/a> by NSA’s former Director<\/a> Michael Hayden<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“We kill people based on metadata<\/a>.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

This means the US government can (totally illegally and immorally) kill you – without even listening to your phone calls, reading your email or your mail.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201c[Collecting Metadata<\/a> is] not a surveillance program, it\u2019s a data-collection program<\/strong><\/em>,\u201d \u00a0Senator Dianne Feinstein said while appearing on CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Talking to reporters while trying to get support for her outrageous Patriot Act update —<\/p>\n

“As you know, this is just metadata. There is no content involved. In other words, no content of a communication<\/a>.<\/strong> <\/em>”<\/p>\n

So I’ll echo TechDirt’s perfect ripost<\/strong> —<\/p>\n

“Since metadata is no big deal and it’s not surveillance, when will Senator Feinstein release all of the metadata on all of the phone calls to and from all or her various offices, mobile phones and home phones?<\/a><\/strong><\/em>”<\/p>\n

# # #<\/p>\n

References:<\/p>\n

Senator Feinstein Finally Finds Surveillance To Get Angry About: When It Happened To Her Staffers<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

NSA Director Michael Hayden Gleefully Admits: We Kill People Based On Metadata<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Lisa Haven Reporting<\/a><\/p>\n

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Astounding admission by NSA’s former Director Michael Hayden. “We kill people based on metadata.” This means the US government can (totally illegally and immorally) kill you – without even listening to your phone calls, reading your email or your mail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[33,39,14,10,11,13,25,22,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-murderous-government","category-outrageous","category-personal-danger","category-politics","category-privacy","category-public-danger","category-staffocracy","category-treasonous","category-war-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6193"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6195,"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6193\/revisions\/6195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}