Obama Administration Offers Flimsy Excuse for NSA Surveillance
Weakly defends NSA lies and misrepresntations
Kurt Nimmo
Prison Planet.com
December 23, 2013
On Sunday, National Security Advisor Susan Rice told Leslie Stahl and 60 Minutes that the NSA did not lie to the American people. The agency “inadvertently made false representations” to the secret FISA court about illegally collecting data on hundreds of millions of Americans, according to Rice. She said the NSA has “discovered it and corrected it.”
In August, the secret FISA court handed down an 85-page ruling that criticized the NSA “for repeatedly misleading the court that oversees its surveillance on domestic soil, including a program that is collecting tens of thousands of domestic e-mails and other Internet communications of Americans each year.”
“The court is troubled that the government’s revelations regarding N.S.A.’s acquisition of Internet transactions mark 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,” former FISA court chief judge John D. Bates wrote in his ruling.
In addition to criticism by a former FISA judge, Congress has called out intelligence community director James Clapper for lying to Congress.
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