NSA misrepresented scope of data collection to secret court
Source: CNN
Washington (CNN) -- The Obama administration on Wednesday declassified opinions from a secret court that oversees government surveillance showing the National Security Agency was broadly collecting domestic Internet communications of Americans and misrepresenting the scope of that effort to the court.
The three opinions include one from October 2011 by U.S. District Judge John Bates, who scolded government lawyers that the NSA had, for the third time in less than three years, belatedly acknowledged it was collecting more data than it was legally allowed to.
The focus of the opinion was the government's admission that for three years, under its authority to monitor foreign communications, it had been collecting information beyond what it gets from Internet service providers, and included data that was entirely domestic.
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court estimated the mistaken collection of domestic data, including e-mails and other Internet activity of Americans, totaled 58,000 communications a year.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/21/politics/nsa-fisa-court/index.html
upaloopa
(11,417 posts)efforts?
NorthCarolina
(11,197 posts)and that agenda ain't good.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)that wasn't a lie?
MotherPetrie
(3,145 posts)Pholus
(4,062 posts)"FU" when you read it.
Krugman's Authoritarian Surveillance state at work...
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/06/paul-krugman-government-tilting-towards-authoritarian-surveillance-state/
Ash_F
(5,861 posts)That one even threw me for a loop.
Defund the NSA like Acorn.
William deB. Mills
(46 posts)Lying to the Secret Court that was formally set up as NSA's overseer and that politically amounts to NSA's cover (protecting it from the prying eyes of Congress and the public) is a direct attack on our democracy and an incredibly stupid bureaucratic maneuver. The whole system in Washington is designed with multiple layers of cloaking devices behind which to maneuver in secret - the Secret Court, and behind it the Intel Committees, and behind them the very friendly White House. NSA has bitten the hand that feeds it. Lying to the court is also perjury.
PSPS
(13,583 posts)cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)K&R
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)1.) So, will each of these persons be informed of the breech of their rights?
2.) How do we know it isn't a typo for 58,000,000?
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts).
blackspade
(10,056 posts)That's what they do.