From Fox News: The Obama administration found itself defending yet another surveillance effort late Thursday after leaked documents revealed information about two secret National Security Agency intelligence-gathering programs.
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper on Thursday called the disclosure of a program that allows the NSA to collect communications data from Internet companies "reprehensible" and said the phone-records monitoring leak could cause harm to the nation's intelligence gathering activities.
Clapper said The Guardian newspaper's disclosure Wednesday of the top secret court order for telephone records of millions of Verizon customers in the U.S. "threatens potentially long-lasting and irreversible harm to our ability to identify and respond to the many threats facing our nation."
“The article omits key information regarding how a classified intelligence collection program is used to prevent terrorist attacks and the numerous safeguards that protect privacy and civil liberties.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/06/07/intelligence-officials-reportedly-mining-data-from-us-internet-companies/#ixzz2VVgwsFSw
I guess getting our phone records tapped isn't enough, now the Internet?
No doubt, there needs to be surveillance of phones and internet is needed when national security is really at stake, but to get information from little old ladies, little old liberals and smart conservatives is not about national security but harassment or just throwing snot against the wall and seeing what sticks. It's not about good law enforcement.
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