Thomas Drake

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874 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 11 Sep

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Redacted News · Americans are being DEBANKED and SPIED on and no one is talking about it\ · 17 Jul 2026 podcast

I'll say it was an obsessive obsession.

compulsive collection disorder, was just, we just need the data.

See, because 9-11 happened, it was a failure, we missed it, missed it.

So therefore, in order to ensure we don't miss it again, because there were still concerns about possible follow-up attacks,

or future attacks, then we just need all the data so we can go back and look at it for patterns.

Now, part of that's legit.

There's no question about that if you're talking foreign intelligence.

NSA always had blanket authority to collect just about anything overseas as long as it didn't involve

U.S.

persons.

Here, this is the difference.

You're now accessing vast amounts of American, U.S.

citizens, legal resident, U.S.

corporate data, but you're also doing it in partnership with the corporations.

I'll give you a couple of examples.

If you're talking a telephone company, there's what they call the CDRs.

These are basically the data records.

the call data records for when you make a phone call.

they had vast access to all of that.

And these were special secret orders that were renewed earlier in the early days, every 45 days or so, completely bypassing the Fortin's Intelligent Availability Act without any warrant.

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