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Officials: NSA mistakenly intercepted emails, phone calls of innocent Americans
nbc ^ | 6/7 | isakoff

Posted on 06/07/2013 4:26:05 PM PDT by RummyChick

The National Security Agency has at times mistakenly intercepted the private email messages and phone calls of Americans who had no link to terrorism, requiring Justice Department officials to report the errors to a secret national security court and destroy the data, according to two former U.S. intelligence officials.

At least some of the phone calls and emails were pulled from among the hundreds of millions stored by telecommunications companies as part of an NSA surveillance program. James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, Thursday night publicly acknowledged what he called “a sensitive intelligence collection program” after its existence was disclosed by the Guardian newspaper.

(Excerpt) Read more at openchannel.nbcnews.com ...


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To: RummyChick

Then what is PRISM?


41 posted on 06/07/2013 6:09:24 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: RummyChick

no balls in congress anywhere to stand up to the lies being said right to their faces.

no balls. the gop-e is in it with the democrats. it’s the only rational reason why. they huff and puff a little for kabuki theatre, that’s it. noting is going to come of it, they will all make’sure of that.


42 posted on 06/07/2013 6:22:29 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: RummyChick
Wait a minute. I just read a thread that stated the NSA can't read American's e-mail...

Oh, here it is...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3028756/posts.

Our government is totally out of control. Can Concord or Lexington be far off?

5.56mm

43 posted on 06/07/2013 6:31:38 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: RummyChick

destroy the data

Suuurrreee they did, wink wink.


44 posted on 06/07/2013 6:39:12 PM PDT by bikerman (Obama! if his lips are moving he's lying.)
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To: RummyChick

Don’t fear govt tyranny- Obama sez!


45 posted on 06/07/2013 7:20:40 PM PDT by RginTN
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To: bikerman
destroy the data Suuurrreee they did, wink wink.

Well, technically they did. See... they destroyed the paper copies they printed out and had on their desk which would prove they were not 'tracking' terrorists, but political opponents and their supporters.

Without those 'printouts', no one can prove what phone numbers were selected, and what 'conversations' they had reconstructed from digital data.

46 posted on 06/07/2013 7:26:39 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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To: sunrise_sunset
You can’t destroy electronic data in any meaningful sense.

But you can destroy paper hardcopies which prove who you were spying on.

47 posted on 06/07/2013 7:28:46 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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To: Charles Martel

“Is Devil’s Island available for lease?”

I think that we’re going to need a bigger piece of real estate.


48 posted on 06/07/2013 7:29:04 PM PDT by Stormdog (A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
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To: RummyChick

Just another wittle boo-boo, they’re so, so, so very sorry.


49 posted on 06/07/2013 8:00:54 PM PDT by tina07 (In loving memory of my father,WWII Vet. CBI 10/16/42-12/17/45, d. 11/1/85)
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To: RummyChick

But Beckel supports EVERY other damn thing Obama...even after this he’s loyal to The One.


50 posted on 06/07/2013 8:04:31 PM PDT by tina07 (In loving memory of my father,WWII Vet. CBI 10/16/42-12/17/45, d. 11/1/85)
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To: RummyChick

bttt


51 posted on 06/07/2013 8:09:38 PM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: RummyChick
Oh, that’s alright. Try not to do it again k?
52 posted on 06/07/2013 8:44:51 PM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: Steely Tom

20 trillion times, but who’s counting? /half joking


53 posted on 06/07/2013 9:13:03 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: M Kehoe

Here it is, director testifies NSA has not got the technology to intercept e-mail.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=oYNXVgYhPOc


54 posted on 06/08/2013 4:20:13 AM PDT by widdle_wabbit
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YOU CAN TRUST ME

WOULD I LIE TO YOU?

WHERE ARE MY FRIES?




55 posted on 06/08/2013 4:22:01 AM PDT by devolve
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To: widdle_wabbit
Thanks.

So the answer is, yes.

Is that rep doing the questioning Hank "Guam could tip over" Johnson?

5.56mm

56 posted on 06/08/2013 4:31:20 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: Grampa Dave; cripplecreek

This was on last night....scary stuff...

Inside the world of big data and big time politics

http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/special-report-bret-baier/videos#p/86927/v/2451277526001


57 posted on 06/08/2013 4:34:41 AM PDT by EBH (The government that sits in Washington, D.C. is not the United States government.)
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To: RummyChick

The judges “were really upset about this,”

Upset that they got caught!


58 posted on 06/08/2013 4:41:26 AM PDT by rfreedom4u (I have a copy of the Constitution! And I'm not afraid to use it!)
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To: ConservativeInPA
One day 80 million constitution loving Americans are going to mistakenly arm themselves and over throw this tyranny.

I'm ready now. When and where?

Let's get this over with quick, while I can still enjoy it.

59 posted on 06/08/2013 5:17:23 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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To: RummyChick

lol


60 posted on 06/08/2013 5:45:28 AM PDT by Rennes Templar (Greatest spy state ever, and no one knows anything.)
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