Well, it seems many people are convinced this is just a clever cover up. To some, it must make more sense that the NSA, with limitless access to personal data, can't tell whether someone is actually plotting a terrorist attack or not, so they send the local PD with no search or arrest warrants to have a friendly 45 minute chat.
It seems the NSA is our new Area 51 and "JTTF" are the Men In Black. People want to believe. Much like alien UFOs were to secret spy planes, these fantastical claims coming out now are likely to the actual secret spy technologies. Great cover and distraction from what is actually being done.
I think this is truer than people here will give you credit for; a huge chunk of the most vocal participants of these threads are outrage tourists; they're --- not being hyperbolic --- disappointed to find out that the whole USG isn't behind these events; it makes the narrative boring.
And I think you're right about the second point. The hyperbolic conclusions people jump to about these stories are, effectively, ambit claims for the surveillance state.
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Well, it seems many people are convinced this is just a clever cover up. To some, it must make more sense that the NSA, with limitless access to personal data, can't tell whether someone is actually plotting a terrorist attack or not, so they send the local PD with no search or arrest warrants to have a friendly 45 minute chat.
It seems the NSA is our new Area 51 and "JTTF" are the Men In Black. People want to believe. Much like alien UFOs were to secret spy planes, these fantastical claims coming out now are likely to the actual secret spy technologies. Great cover and distraction from what is actually being done.
I think this is truer than people here will give you credit for; a huge chunk of the most vocal participants of these threads are outrage tourists; they're --- not being hyperbolic --- disappointed to find out that the whole USG isn't behind these events; it makes the narrative boring.
And I think you're right about the second point. The hyperbolic conclusions people jump to about these stories are, effectively, ambit claims for the surveillance state.
I like the use of "outrage tourists."