you want to destroy a representation of the records, but keep them in storage somewhere?
I was more imagining the records fashioned into a Wicker Man style construction, with Clapper, Alexandar et al as the soft centre. I'd be tempted to do some chanting and dancing around that
The important story here is not that there's more secret surveillance, it's that the Independent claims that the story is based on materials from Snowden, and he and the Guardian flat-out deny that. The obvious implication is that the UK government itself "leaked" the material to the Independent, to create an appearance of potential danger to people arising from "the Snowden disclosures", a type of release that Snowden and the Guardian have strenuously avoided.
EU nations have managed to put up a full service light rail system connecting all your major cities, in an area about as large as the five boroughs of NYC.
The area of NYC is somewhere between 650 sq.km and 950 sq.km, depending on how you measure. There are 44 European countries larger than 1000 sq.km - NYC is only larger than Andorra, Malta, Liechtenstein, San Marino, Monaco and Vatican City. Even the 44th largest on the list, Luxembourg, is more than two and a half times bigger than NYC.
I think the nearest equivalent would be a D-Notice
Everybody knows what the outcome will be before the vote is taken
That may be ordinarily true, but the fact that the White House vocalised opposition In an emergency statement on Tuesday, and the NSA director spent four hours lobbying Congress behind closed doors, shows how worried the authorities were about this amendment.
Two American fighter jets dropped four unarmed bombs into Australia's Great Barrier Reef Marine Park..."Have we gone completely mad?" asked Australian Senator Larissa Waters. "Is this how we look after our World Heritage area now? Letting a foreign power drop bombs on it?"
What excuse is there really for not putting a torrent up somewhere?
That he is a patriot whose loyalty is first and foremost is to his country, and not to his "superiors" who have shredded its constitution?
Both sides are lying, but the truth isn't in the middle - it's off on a tangent that no one talks about. There have recently been a flurry of scandals from DC, all showing up at a time when Benghazi was starting to be looked at very closely
You're really trying to claim that the Benghazi "scandal" - where USG allegedly didn't quickly enough label an incident as terrorism - is way more serious an issue than a massive program of covert surveillance? So serious that revealing the NSA's secrets is a useful distraction? There has been plenty of partisan smoke blown over the revelations, but yours is the most ridiculuous I've seen.
I had a point to all this that I think I've lost
I think it is the plot, rather than the point, that you have lost. Well, that and your constitutional rights. At least your sig got it right.
No amount of careful planning will ever replace dumb luck.