Posted on 10/03/2013 9:56:40 AM PDT by Red Steel
The Obama administrations credibility on intelligence suffered another blow Wednesday as the chief of the National Security Agency admitted that officials put out numbers that vastly overstated the counterterrorism successes of the governments warrantless bulk collection of all Americans phone records.
Pressed by the Democratic chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee at an oversight hearing, Gen. Keith B. Alexander admitted that the number of terrorist plots foiled by the NSAs huge database of every phone call made in or to America was only one or perhaps two far smaller than the 54 originally claimed by the administration.
Gen. Alexander and other intelligence chiefs have pleaded with lawmakers not to shut down the bulk collection of U.S. phone records despite growing unease about government overreach in the program, which was revealed in documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
There is no evidence that [bulk] phone records collection helped to thwart dozens or even several terrorist plots, Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, Vermont Democrat and committee chairman, told Gen. Alexander of the 54 cases that administration officials including the general himself have cited as the fruit of the NSAs domestic snooping.
These werent all plots and they werent all foiled, he said.
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Pressed by the Democratic chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee at an oversight hearing, Gen. Keith B. Alexander admitted that the number of terrorist plots foiled by the NSAs huge database of every phone call made in or to America was only one or perhaps two far smaller than the 54 originally claimed by the administration.
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It’s all Rummy’s fault, yaknow. lol
His mis&disinformation agency is still going strong. ;-)
The entire administration and all of the people that come directly under it are nothing but unmitigated liars. Citizens cannot be expected to believe anything that they say, do, or document, PERIOD.
A lie is more than just “misleading.” They intentionally lied.
Name one.
For this we gave up our Fourth and Fifth Amendments?
"When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt,
but protects the corrupt from you -
you know your nation is doomed."
-Ayn Rand
How did anything hit such a miniscule target?
Mass surveillance makes us less safe, by giving these Keystone Kops a flood of irrelevant information that distracts them from actual threats.
Literally trillions of bits & bytes of information collected by NSA data mining operations, and they foiled 1 or 2? And they couldn't even foil the the Boston marathon bombers in spite of repeated warnings from Russia?
I wish we could someday elect a genuine, conservative, pro-American, pro-liberty, pro-freedom, Christian, patriotic, constitutional president. Who would then FIRE 90% of the NSA, disband the TSA, Dept of Ed, Dept of Energy, and layoff 50% of rest of government AND limit their retirement pay from full 100% of their salary to 30% of the average of the last 5 years...including judicial, legislative & executive branches.
Personally I think our country will need to go through a tremendous, gut-wrenching, splitting into several regional countries before we would ever find or elect someone who would fit this description.
Yet half the people in this country would vote for him again.
ZERO, probably.
The actual effect of the NSA's snooping fetish is to make the nation less safe -- while they poke and pry into the private business of innocent citizens, actual information about bad guys (like the warning about Tsarnaev handed to the Feds on a silver platter) gets lost in the noise.
Also, when are these people going to learn that lying just makes it worse when you inevitably get
I need to figure out how to superimpose that Mythbusters "BUSTED" stamp over the giant screen of BS in this picture.
I’ll bet Microsoft gave the NSA and the Fed gov backdoors to their operating systems.
Good luck finding a sucker dumb enough to cover that bet.
Someone in authority arrest some of these lieing commieLIB bums and prosecute them.
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