This bullet points listed below in this Blog Posting were gleaned from an article about the NSA Spying Scandal published on 8/21/13. If you want to read all of it, click here: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/22/us-usa-security-nsa-idUSBRE97K14Y20130822
If you do take the time to read the article, you will no doubt (see how smart I know my dear readers to be?) notice the following key excerpts...
- “unintentionally collected as many as 56,000 emails of Americans per year between 2008 and 2011 in a program that a secret U.S. court (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 ... Note the word “foreign”.) subsequently said may have violated U.S. law and the Constitution”
- “the third instance in less than three years in which the government has disclosed a substantial misrepresentation regarding the scope of a major collection program”
- “October 2011 ruling that the court (FISA) had concluded that the process that resulted in improper collections of the tens of thousands of emails was in some respects, deficient on statutory and constitutional grounds”
It appears that the NSA is not denying the allegations underlined above but then the article had this to say: “Intelligence officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, defended their practices”.
The article clarified this matter further...
The emails in question represent only a small slice of the electronic communications scooped up around the world by the NSA. It targets about 250 million email communications for collection each year and, under a separate program, has captured and kept records of millions of phone calls by Americans.
The 250 million emails (plus millions of phone calls) admitted to in the above paragraph is described as follows... “Not An Egregious Overreaching”.
The reason our Federal Government can say this is Not An Egregious Overreaching is because of the Congressional Bunch of Things Grading System...
- Anything less than 250 million of anything is a Drop in the Bucket.
- Exactly 250 million is Not Egregious.
- Anything over 250 million is Egregious.
Are you confused? I’m confused because they apparently don’t deny the bad things they did and they agree the bad things are bad things but they defend the bad things as good things.
Washington D.C. jargon what they are saying is...
Yes we did it. Yes it was wrong to do it.
but
That which we did, which was wrong, was right.
Need more examples of Washington D.C. Jargon?...
- I got my gun, took careful aim at him and shot him in the chest but I did not mean to hurt him.
- Yes I agree fully that what I testified to was a ball faced lie but, if it were true, it would be true.
- I understand that as a Member of Congress I keep voting myself raises far in access of what is available to the minions outside of Congress but you must understand that I have a very wasteful lifestyle and I keep running out of money.
Did I clarify this issue for you? If so, I’m glad I could help.
Would I kid u?
Smartfella
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