US Unveils 6-Year-Old Report On NSA Surveillance

[Purveyor]

Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) -- With debate gearing up over the coming expiration of the Patriot Act surveillance law, the Obama administration on Saturday unveiled a 6-year-old report examining the once-secret program to collect information on Americans' calls and emails.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence publicly released the redacted report following a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by the New York Times. The basics of the National Security Agency program had already been declassified, but the lengthy report includes some new details about the secrecy surrounding it.

President George W. Bush authorized the "President's Surveillance Program" in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. The review was completed in July 2009 by inspectors general from the Justice Department, Pentagon, CIA, NSA and Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

They found that while many senior intelligence officials believe the program filled a gap by increasing access to international communications, others including FBI agents, CIA analysts and managers "had difficulty evaluating the precise contribution of the PSP to counterterrorism efforts because it was most often viewed as one source among many available analytic and intelligence-gathering tools in these efforts."

Read more: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_NSA_SURVEILLANCE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-04-25-13-38-12

[Hekate]

1. Kick

[blkmusclmachine]

2. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d1/IAO-logo.png

[erronis]

6. TIA - Total Information Awareness

So many ways for the crooks around the beltway to steal the taxpayers money.

[peacebird]

3. K&R

[diabeticman]

4. All Hail Big Brother

[cstanleytech]

5. Big brother isnt a problem if there is good oversight because there are real threats

as demonstrated by the destruction of the Twin Towers but sadly the needed oversight has been greatly neglected by our government IMO.

[Beauregard]

8. "Good oversight"?

But who will police the police?

[cstanleytech]

9. Our elected officials and the courts.

I mean ya sometimes they screw up and sometimes they make a bad call and sometimes they even break the law but the truth is agencies like the FBI, CIA and the NSA are needed in this world.
Sucks like hell though that they we even need such agencies.

[Beauregard]

10. No one supervises our elected officials and the courts.

Except the 1%, who put them in power and keep them there.

[cstanleytech]

11. Yes they hold alot of sway, far more than they should but we arent entirely powerless.

[Octafish]

7. Unnecessary program for spooks, useful for BFEE.

CIA briefed Smirko "bin Laden determined to strike in U.S." in August 2001 and he said, "All right, you've covered your ass." So, the guy, obviously, got all he needed on foreign enemies. PSP was perfect for finding who-said-what-to-whom about his administration and policies, domestically.

Guy's exposed, again, as a traitor.