Yet Another NSA Program Raises Questions About Obama's Statements to Charlie Rose

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13. No, I'm not conflating. But, Obama's statement is confusing as it seems to say that voice content

is not collected.

Read it again. He seems perfectly clear on this:

"Then, what the NSA can do is it can query that database to see did this number pop up? Did they make any other calls? And if they did, those calls will be spit out. A report will be produced. It will be turned over to the FBI. At no point is any content revealed because there's no content," Obama explained.

I'll ask the same set of questions again, because they need to be asked until there's a completely candid and sensible answer. First, "There's no content." What did he mean by that? Does he mean to say that NSA doesn't collect content? Or, second, is he saying that NSA has no access to content, but other agencies that run their own 702 programs do - and, third, how are those two propositions really different?

His statement raises all three questions, as well as unfortunate questions about his full candor.

And, here's the rub: Sec. 702 says all that data is supposed to be minimized, but it apparently hasn't been.