DHS admits it uses Stingrays for VIPs, vows to sometimes get warrants, stop lying to judges

[doctorow]

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[fuzzyfungus]

Hey, my PC “wasn’t configured by the vendor” to do much of anything; because it didn’t come with an OS. Guess how much of a difference that made?

[kmoser]

You can’t put too much water in the nuclear reactor.

[anotherone]

tldr version
Oh yeah, what we do is criminal to be sure, but good luck catching us.

• DHS

[Ulysses]

How do we know they aren’t STILL lying about not lying?

[Boundegar]

I think “exceptional circumstrances” means “we feel like making an exception.”

[thaumatechnicia]

Close but not quite: “exceptional circumstances” means “standard operating procedure”.

[lava]

Time for citizens to declare that we have a rouge agency flouting our laws and lying to our courts.

[jerwin]

State of exception