Pelosi: NSA Report 'Extremely Disturbing' - TheHill

[WillyT]

Pelosi: NSA report 'extremely disturbing'
By Brendan Sasso - TheHill
08/16/13 09:40 AM ET

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House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) said on Friday that a report that the National Security Agency broke privacy rules thousands of times per year is "extremely disturbing."

She argued that under the law, the NSA should have reported the violations to Congress and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Court.

"Congress must conduct rigorous oversight to ensure that all incidents of non-compliance are reported to the oversight committees and the FISA court in a timely and comprehensive manner, and that appropriate steps are taken to ensure violations are not repeated,” she said in the statement.

Pelosi's comment represents some of her harshest criticism of the NSA since leaks earlier this summer publicized the scope of the agency's surveillance.

She voted against a House measure last month that would have curbed the NSA's phone data collection program, but has called for greater transparency and expressed concern that there are insufficient privacy protections.

Late on Thursday, The Washington Post published an internal NSA audit showing that the agency repeatedly overstepped its legal authority in recent years.

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More: http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/317371-pelosi-nsa-privacy-violations-extremely-disturbing

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

1. That's nice. When do we see the indictments of the perpetrators?

[DisgustipatedinCA]

8. I highly doubt that indictments are "on the table", given Pelosi's record.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

12. Exactly. Indictments are reserved for whistleblowers, not assassins, banksters, spys, or torturers.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

20. Painfully true.

[midnight]

2. If this jaw dropping law breaking organization is so disturbing why vote to keep it going?

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. But, but...overheard conversations of threats to reporters

And Snowden blowing the whistle are fine.

When this first broke she was outraged and feigned ignorance too.

It's the wet finger telling her these winds are shifting and picking on speed...

Go ahead and call me a cynic

[rhett o rick]

17. I will call you a fellow cynic.

[LearningCurve]

31. I am also a cynic

Leading from behind.

[99th_Monkey]

4. That's a great start Nancy. Now what are you going to do with your outrage? eom

[bahrbearian]

6. Outrage is off the table.

[99th_Monkey]

11. An "Outrage Outage" I think that's called ?

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

21. .

[Dawson Leery]

5. James Clapper committed perjury, yet he is allowed to keep his position.

[rhett o rick]

19. Who could make him step down? nm

[cloudbase]

7. If she keeps this up,

she'll need yet another side of her mouth from which to speak.

[forestpath]

14. +1

[Safetykitten]

18. +1

[HooptieWagon]

26. Another side?

Hell, she's going to need n-dimensional sides

[Autumn]

9. 'Extremely Disturbing' You got that right Nancy.

What's your next step? Gonna take that off the "table" too?

[Catherina]

10. Not buying her convenient shock n/t

[rhett o rick]

22. There is an important message between the lies. "They" know a lot more

that we think. They just go with the wind. Same for Democrats supporting the Iraq invasion and Sanja Gupta deciding the wind was changing regarding the Elite's acceptance of marijuana for the masses.

[Catherina]

32. Agreed. n/t

[forestpath]

13. ROFL. This must be affecting her stock portfolio negatively somehow.

[LittleBlue]

15. Nancy, the words are "I'm sorry"

You should begin with that for defending domestic spying.

She betrayed the American people on this

[snappyturtle]

16. "Rigorous oversight"? She can only hope...have it turned into one

L-O-N-G study...until it fades down the memory hole!

Not this time Nancy. Better come up with something better.
No one can tell me that Congress is as blind as it contends.

[cherokeeprogressive]

23. CYA Nancy, CYA.

[foo_bar]

24. "incidents...are reported", "steps are taken", "violations are not repeated" (mistakes were made!)

Sometimes the passive voice sentence is necessary when the speaker wants to hide the agent or obscure what occurs. For instance, a governor up for reelection might say, "Last election taxes were raised over the course of the year." The passive voice sentence hides the actor. It would be uncomfortable for him to tell potential voters, "Last election, I raised taxes over the course of the year." In that last sentence, the one who did the action is painfully clear! This type of situation is one of the few times that the passive form proves useful, albeit in a somewhat deceptive way.

http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/documents/Passive_Voice_Guide.pdf

Appropriate steps are taken... by whom? The Clapper Catfood Commission? NSA pinky swear? ("Non-compliance" is also a pleasantly clinical way of describing a potential federal crime, "operator error" notwithstanding.)

[Catherina]

33. +1 n/t

[KoKo]

25. Sigh....

[kentuck]

27. Pelosi? I thought she had died??

It's been so long since we have heard from her, it seems?

[mindwalker_i]

28. Your failure to give a fuck prior to

now, when you have little choice, is disturbing.

[Octafish]

29. A Disturbing Pattern

Selection 2000 5-4
9-11 Warnings Ignored
ENRON Energy Policy
Illegal, Immoral, Unnecessary and Disastrous Iraq, Afghanistan Wars
Torture
Drones
NOLA Drowns
Impeachment Is Off the Table

Look Forward Not Backward...

[tsuki]

30. That's why you voted for business as usual. nt