“.... NSA ended the program that collected email logs and timing, but not content, in 2011”
LOL!!!! How freakin stupid do they think we are?
They threw out all the so called “metadata” but, they kept the content?
There is no way that statement is believable.
What is astonishing is they now admit they do, in fact, surveil actual content.
There is no way they kept the content but not the data about the source of origination, the header/footer and how the information was routed.
Defies logic.
They would need all that information otherwise the content is irrelevant, since they could not prove origination and termination as well the parties involved.
So much trope
I suppose you could read it that way given the awkward ambiguous language, but then that would not make sense in the context of the rest of the article and so would be a mistake to take it that way. They didn't "keep the content," they never collected content but only collected metadata. The author is actually trying to say the program collected only metadata - not content. And the author is saying the program of metadata collection ended in 2011 and the metadata collected thus far was purged... but later adds that it can resume collecting new metadata under FISA court permissions.
There is no way that statement is believable.
That's because you misread it. [Which may be just fine as far as the editor is concerned.]
What is astonishing is they now admit they do, in fact, surveil actual content.
No the article does NOT say that at all. Quite the opposite... it says they collected everything except content.
There is no way they kept the content but not the data about the source of origination, the header/footer and how the information was routed.
That is correct, they did not keep the content at all...the article says they were only collecting metadata all along.
Defies logic. They would need all that information otherwise the content is irrelevant, since they could not prove origination and termination as well the parties involved.
They did not collect content.