Re: [Ted Rall Subscription Service] Another April 1st Piece (fwd)

[robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

Funny.

So, I guess April Fools jokes are OK if you say that it's an April Fools
joke?

 > From: Noelle <http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelleg>
 > Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 17:02:48 -0700 (PDT)
 >
 >  > Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 17:15:18 -0400
 >  > From: Ted Rall <http://www.aol.com/~tedrall>
 >  > 
 >  > *NSA Selling Americans' Personal Data to Private Companies, Including 
 >  > Iranian and Russian Data Mining Firms*
 >  > 
 >  > ·*/Government lawyers say it's safe, legal/*
 >  > 
 >  > ·*/Purpose is revenue raising to circumvent tight budgets/*
 >  > 
 >  > *By Ted D. Rall*
 >  > 
 >  > The National Security Agency <https://www.nsa.gov/> is selling 
 >  > Americans' personal data to private corporations in order to raise 
 >  > revenues for stretched federal coffers, according to a blockbuster 
 >  > report to be released by Second Look Media.
 >  > 
 >  > Second Look, which is 50% owned by billionaire eBay founder 
 >  > Iranian-American Pierre Omidyar, is a 25% spinoff of First Look Media, 
 >  > known for transcribing NSA documents leaked by former NSA/CIA contractor 
 >  > Edward Snowden.
 >  > 
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