[Howlin]

GEN. HAYDEN: I talked to the NSA staff on Friday. The NSA inspector general reports to me, as of last Friday, from the inception of this program through last Friday night, not a single employee of the National Security Agency has addressed a concern about this program to the NSA IG. I should also add that no member of the NSA workforce who has been asked to be included in this program has responded to that request with anything except enthusiasm. I don't know what you're talking about.

[Peach]

I thought the whistleblower to the NYT was a former NSA employee? So he didn't complain about the program to his employees but just ran right to the newspaper?

[Mo1]

not a single employee of the National Security Agency has addressed a concern about this program to the NSA IG

Ummmm .. Was Conyers star witness even employed at FISA??

[Sam Hill]

"not a single employee of the National Security Agency has addressed a concern about this program to the NSA IG."

Why would they. It's not illegal if it is done at the direction of the POTUS via the AG.

BTW, I hope everyone was aware of how carefully Hayden chose his words.

Bottom line, we're not talking about "eavesdropping." Nobody has time to listen, tape, translate a bunch of damn Arabic. This is time sensitive stuff here, hence the desire to skip going before the FISA court.

We're talking SIGINT (Signals Intelligence).

As Hayden said, NSA was using the same technology/technique as is used to decide where to drop a 500 pound bomb.

It's location, location, location.

Our one party media doesn't know what they are talking about here. As usual. And sadly, neither do a lot of folks on the right.

It's not eavesdropping. It's monitoring. There's a big difference.