Senators: NSA must correct inaccurate claims over privacy protections

[adric mutelovic]

Source: The Guardian

Two senators on the intelligence committee on Monday accused the National Security Agency of publicly presenting "inaccurate" information about the privacy protections on its surveillance on millions of internet communications.

However, in a demonstration of the intense secrecy surrounding NSA surveillance even after Edward Snowden's revelations, the senators claimed they could not publicly identify the allegedly misleading section or sections of a factsheet without compromising classified information.

Senators Ron Wyden (Democrat, Oregon) and Mark Udall (Democrat, Colorado) wrote to General Keith Alexander, the director of the NSA, to correct "inaccurate" portrayals about restrictions on surveillance published in a factsheet available on the NSA's homepage. The factsheet, concerning NSA's powers under Section 702 of the 2008 Fisa Amendments Act, was also supplied to members of Congress.

"We were disappointed to see that this factsheet contains an inaccurate statement about how the section 702 authority has been interpreted by the US government," Wyden and Udall wrote to Alexander, in a letter dated 24 June and acquired by the Guardian.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/24/senators-nsa-letter-inaccurate-information-privacy

[grasswire]

1. Please proceed, General Alexander. nt

[RainDog]

2. k&r n/t

[silvershadow]

3. Say it ain't so! nt

[BlueStreak]

4. It is OK to lie and commit perjury. But if anybody asks questions

I guess you'll have to go in and amend your comments in the middle of the night when nobody will notice.

[blkmusclmachine]

5. HA!

We can hear you now.

[DirkGently]

6. So, the secret protections being secretly interpreted are secretly

... bullshit?

Shocking.

shocking i say

[PSPS]

7. "the senators claimed they could not publicly identify the allegedly misleading section or sections"

However, in a demonstration of the intense secrecy surrounding NSA surveillance even after Edward Snowden's revelations, the senators claimed they could not publicly identify the allegedly misleading section or sections of a factsheet without compromising classified information.

As long as they keep playing this "it's all a deep dark secret" game, they've lost me. I feel no loyalty whatsoever to any surveillance police state even if I'm living in it. Whenever I hear "it's a secret," I now assume the only reason is they fear the public's (and the world's) revulsion.

[truedelphi]

9. Maybe the world's revulsion - but the citizens of this nation are totally

Conditioned to accept all this stuff.

[frylock]

8. ratfucking arglebargle!!!1!

[DeSwiss]

12. THAT'S.......

...the words I was looking for!

- Now the ASSHOLES are concerned!

[Harmony Blue]

10. Well, well, well...

look at this.

[Major Hogwash]

11. Hahahaha!!!!

Wyden's upset!! OMG!!! Stop the Press!!
Swear to gawd, some of the Democrats in the Senate aren't worth spit!!