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Snowden revealed the fact that the NSA was recording data on Americans' phone calls and mining data and information from major Internet providers in the United States and around the world.
"I think on three scores -- that is leaking the Patriot Act section 215, FISA 702, and the president's classified cyber operations's directive -- on the strength of leaking that, yes, that would be a prosecutable offense," Pelosi told reporters at her Capitol Hill news briefing. "I think that he should be prosecuted."
Section 215 is the part of the law that allows the agency to record the so-called metadata of every phone call in the country and hold the data for five years. Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is the part of law that allows the NSA to monitor Internet activity.
...Asked if she thought Congress should take any action, she suggested that more transparency would be useful, but seemed most concerned that the information leaked in the first place.
"How on earth can we have a situation where we are so vulnerable, so exposed, with so much information about how we acquire intelligence, to the point that the head of the [Director of National Intelligence] is saying that it seriously hurt our national security?" Pelosi said.
"How could we be so hurt by one person walking out the door with access to so much information? I think that's a question that Congress has to ask," she said.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/13/nancy-pelosi-nsa_n_3436512.html
Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)carolinayellowdog
(3,247 posts)my first thought as well
BeyondGeography
(39,374 posts)What does she know?
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)SomethingFishy
(4,876 posts)they didn't prosecute Bush or his cronies then my question would be.. At what cost?
We wanted to win so badly that we allowed a small group of people who orchestrated the deaths of hundreds of thousands by cherry picking intelligence and in some cases outright lying about the military capability of Iraq, to walk away not only scott free but extremely wealthy.
We sure showed them! Yeah kill a bunch of people and we will send you home. With millions of dollars, book deals, and tv contracts.
Take that you war mongering assholes!
BeyondGeography
(39,374 posts)In addition to the political dumbassery of it all, that was your prize.
Stop already.
SomethingFishy
(4,876 posts)You just sat there and claimed that letting those people go free was worth 8 years of half assed Democratic rule. . I'd love to see you tell that to an Iraqi mother holding her dead child... Maybe you could tell her how her childs life was worth it because she is now "liberated".
Fuck, we have become a nation of blowhard insensitive assholes.
BeyondGeography
(39,374 posts)theaocp
(4,241 posts)my best day and my worst day. Which shall I choose to praise the sun for?
magellan
(13,257 posts)The double standards are appalling.
forestpath
(3,102 posts)avaistheone1
(14,626 posts)sibelian
(7,804 posts)One must always consider what politicians are in a position to say.
eissa
(4,238 posts)He broke the law. He can't be protected for being a whistleblower because he's not one. He didn't reveal any illegal activity or abuse. He decided he didn't like a legal policy, and however unpopular that policy may be, it doesn't change the fact that it's law. And if it turns out he did show documents to the Chinese, you can add more to the shitload coming his way.
theaocp
(4,241 posts)we shouldn't be outsourcing our intelligence to contractors. But fuck that, right Nancy? She knows which side her bread is fucking buttered on and we're always going to be on the dry side. She's a fraud.