Watch Top U.S. Intelligence Officials Repeatedly Deny NSA Spying On Americans Over The Last Year
To paraphrase Joseph Heller: Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t surveilling you.
In less than 24 hours, the spectre of the National Security Agency as a panopticon collecting data on every American has evolved from a conspiracy theory into reality. First, a leaked top secret order sent to Verizon and exposed on Wednesday evening showed that the agency requested the call records over three months of every American user of Verizon Business Network Services. A day later, the revelation of that surveillance has expanded to encompass Sprint and AT&T, too, as well as Internet service providers and even credit card companies. And now a separate leak has exposed another NSA program known as PRISM that reportedly created backdoors in every major tech firm, including Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Apple.
The details of the last of those spying stories remain murky: All of the companies named in the leaked PowerPoint presentation outlining PRISM have now denied cooperating with the program.
But given the mounting evidence, the NSA will have a much harder time than those tech firms in denying that it’s engaged in massive domestic spying campaigns.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/06/06/watch-top-u-s-intelligence-officials-repeatedly-deny-nsa-spying-on-americans-over-the-last-year-videos/ includes relevant videos.
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