Thomas Drake
speaker
874 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 11 Sep
Thomas Drake’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Or as I've used, tried to, what's another, like a metaphor, a way to, or an example to sort of illustrate, maybe that's a word, illustrate better.
You don't have to take all the sand off the beach.
spend massive amounts of money with special dump trucks and front-end bucket loaders, send it to some filtration system where at the bottom you figure out what you finally have.
The problem is you've disturbed the sand.
You've removed it from its source.
You don't know where it came from, what was washed up.
Where thin thread just left the sand in place, it only observed and kept track of the differences.
So something foreign showed up or was a potential threat,
And it involved a U.S.
person.
You flagged it, tagged it, encrypted it.
You would then unencrypt or decrypt through the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court because it involved a U.S.
person.
That was the law of the land.
It was all bypassed.
But what you unleashed was sort of the perverse incentive just to keep collecting it all.
Now you have this staggering amount of data and you don't have the burden anymore of whether or not it's a US person.
And you're even arguing, well, it's not a true search at all because all we did was collect it.
And still we actually look at it.
We don't have to worry about whether or not we're violating anybody's rights.
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