Posted on 02/09/2023 8:31:17 PM PST by 11th_VA
IN BRIEF A US intelligence boss has asked Congress to reauthorize a controversial set of powers that give snoops warrantless authorization to surveil electronic communications in the name of fighting terrorism and so forth.
NSA director General Paul Nakasone told the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board yesterday that the loss of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) would mean American spies would "lose critical insights into the most significant threats to our nation" if allowed to lapse on December 31.
In his speech, Nakasone said Section 702 is "irreplaceable," and he provided several stories of the FBI and NSA cooperating using the law to stop terrorist plots and online attacks to justify his claim...
... the FBI was found to have used the database of electronic communications gathered from US telecom and tech companies under S.702 to search for records of US persons who were caught up in data gathering sweeps.
When asked about the use of Section 702-gathered data to surveil US persons during hearings over its previous renewal in 2017, the NSA refused to provide figures. "Seems like baloney to me … It's the greatest intelligence service on the planet. You'd think they'd be able to know that," House Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH) said during the hearings.
"Section 702 cannot be used to target Americans anywhere in the world or any person inside the United States regardless of nationality. No exceptions," Nakasone said.
The records beg to differ, and this time they're known about before reauthorization hearings. Whether that'll change the outcome is another thing altogether.
(Excerpt) Read more at theregister.com ...
First, DEFINE "TERRORISM"
Secondly, EXPLAIN "AND SO FORTH"
Etc. etc. etc. Next question?
i’m sure bin laden is bragging in hell that he destroyed America, because he got bush and the neocons to pass the “patriot act.”
what shameless pride from this guy. nobody and nothing is “irreplaceable” but God.
I'll bet they would include "insurrection" e. g. Jan 6.
McCarthy had better seize this opportunity to tell them to go straight back to the hell from whence they came.
Uh, No, General.
You IC pukes will have to figure out something else.
Nearly everything you do in Window 10 control panel is sent back to the mothership.
We know from the Snowden tapes that Microsoft was allowed to do this (gleefully), going back to 9-11 when the Department of Homeland Security was established by chimp Bush and authorized the domestic spying program.
If you do any browsing in Windows 10 (absent a VPN), or send/receive emails, it is all being recorded.
https://www.michaelhorowitz.com/Windows10.spying.onsettings.php
Very Interesting - I’m staying Windows 8 as long as I can.
Most readers have never had anything to do with the NSA. I have. In one case, it blocked my inclusion of elements of a NSA report that listed Americans involved in illegal and shady banking practices in Latin America. That report, and mine, are now down Orwell’s rabbit hole. The odd thing is that for all the billions of dollars poured into the NSA it never has had to make an account of its activity to THE AMERICAN PUBLIC. Not one American in 10,000 can say with any certainty if it is money well spent.
No .No, and NO again.
Indeed they make FIB look like a starter kit for Marxism the 1984 manual is getting passed all around D.C..
I would be absolutely shocked if he did that. I'd bet serious money on it being re-authorized. If not, they'll tuck it into some other 'must pass' bill that is 6000 pages long.
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