Posted on 06/09/2013 11:22:08 AM PDT by Whenifhow
Thank you for joining us today, Mr. Greenwald. You are really on a roll. You broke another story yesterday showing the scale of the data collection programs. In March 2013, you report the government collected 97 billion pieces of data, almost all of it from outside the U.S. What's the key finding here?
GREENWALD: There are two key findings. One is that there are members of the Congress who have responsibility for oversight, for checking the people who run this vast secret apparatus of spying to make sure they are not abusing their power. These people in Congress have continuously asked for the NSA to provide basic information about how many Americans they are spying on, how many conversations and telephone and chats of Americans they are intercepting, and the NSA continuously tells them we don't have the capability to tell you that, to even give you a rough estimate. So with these documents that we published show, that were marked top secret to prevent the American people from learning about them, was that the NSA keeps extremely precise statistics, all the data that the senators announced (ph) where the NSA has falsely claimed does not exist, and the other thing that it does, as you said, is it indicates just how vast and massive the NSA is in terms of sweeping up all forms of communication around the globe, including domestically.
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http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/week-transcript-sen-dianne-feinstein-rep-mike-rogers/story?id=19343314#.UbSfBMp0lvJ
At the beginning of this round table, a video is shown from discussion in Congress of the same debate in 1975. (45 seconds)
Round Table Roundtable I: Privacy vs. Security
http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/video/week-roundtable-privacy-security-19359675?tab=9482930§ion=1206874&playlist=19360106
George Will, Matthew Dowd, Paul Krugman, Greta Van Susteren, and Rep. Keith Ellison.
A full transcript can be found here
At the beginning of this round table, a video is shown from discussion in Congress of the same debate in 1975. (45 seconds)
Round Table Roundtable I: Privacy vs. Security
George Will, Matthew Dowd, Paul Krugman, Greta Van Susteren, and Rep. Keith Ellison.
they need to connect all the dots back to the Obama campaign with the NSA scandal and the IRS scandal. The targeting of the Tea Party.
Seems that Holder when asked by Senator Kirk today had a great response.
“Can you assure us no members of the Capitol building were monitored?” asked Kirk. When Holder said he wouldn’t be able to answer that question in an “open forum,” Kirk interrupted him. “I think the correct answer is ‘we stayed within our lane and we did not spy on members of Congress.”
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