This means the actual number “scooped up” is thousands of times higher and they made no effort to avoid doing so.
Why did he declassify 56,000 so willingly...?
The honest answer is the one that squeeks out AFTER you’ve started pouring the molten lead.
THEY’RE INCERPTING *EVERYTHING*.
56,000? Seems like they lost a few zeros.
The 4th amendment is deader than a doornail.
Q: So what has been the conservative talking head response?
A: To propose more amendments to the Constitution that will be ignored.
Thousands...
Someone is behind the curve!
ONLY thousands? They must be slackin’.
We’ve had 19 terrorists that did major damage to some parts of the country. 19. How this morphed into 56,000 “inncoently” scooped up... Then there’s that the HUNDREDS of thousands on the No-Fly List. I don’t trust any branch of the govt.
I guess he’s got the goods on everyone...even the supremes.
They are also STEALING Thousands of E-mail attachments containing world-wide private corporate material.
“Thousands,” eh?
NSA used PRISM to collect more than 200 million internet communications a year as of 2011
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3057232/posts
Election Fraud, using the IRS and the NSA to take out his opponents.
Obama is where he’s at do to all of this.
Look up how he rose to power in IL.....
it’s called collecting dirt and BLACKMAIL.
Obama and Oboehner don’t care, so why are we debating his.
It was wrong and is wrong to be collecting all this data.
Yet more lies exposed. First it was just 50 or so, then 2,500, and now its over 55,000. Nobody can believe anything these liars say.
Moreover, it's just an educated guess!!!!
Impeachment File on Communist, Benghazi Coward “B. Hussein Obama,” formerly known as Barry Soetoro, currently a Legal Citizen of the Sovereign Nation of Indonesia.
I’m forgiving of the NSA and am willing to send a measured response to the good folks there. We send in the 101st Airborne to round up and jail half the NSA Stasi, and wait to see if the other half gets the message. If not, call out the 1st Marine Division to clean out the rest.
These a-holes are not patriots; they’re traitors attacking our liberties.
I wonder what Obama’s NSA has on Boehner and McConnel...
What gets me is how Satan can find so many recruits to willfully do his bidding, all the way into the Lake of Fire for eternity at Judgement time. And there is no escaping God’s final judgement.
Since the FBI “source” that provided the Petraeus affair emails was never spelled out, it would be interesting to find out if they were some of those thousands of emails scooped up “accidentally” when a “202” area code was mistaken for a “20” national code.
Given the revelation that the DEA was tipped off by the NSA on some criminal matter and told to lie about the real source of their information, it is not an unreasonable question to ask if the FBI was told to lie about the real source of their information about Petraeus.
I don’t think it is reasonable that someone accidentally mistook the Washington DC area code of 202 for some “20” country code.
Well... That’s an excruciatingly small number. I’ve got a few times that in my own email archives.
I can think of a way this might be happening. I do believe them when they say they are focused on messaging going in and out internationally. That’s the stuff that’s most interesting and most likely to be useful. Domestic message traffic is simply so... So enormous... It’s trying to sip from a fire hose, and a scary gynormous amount of work for a tediously small payoff in useful intel. If it were me I wouldn’t bother, and I’d bet they’ve been through that same calculation themselves.
But now and then even if you’re capturing international traffic you’ll grab some traffic between U.S. citizens who are working on foreign messaging services. Quite a lot of it maybe... So they work their algorithm to ignore situations like that as far as they can imagine them... But always end up with some comms from people that don’t fit in the nice algorithmic boxes. If it is really only 56k items, my compliments to the system designer for a filter screen that really does seem to work.