Posted on 06/07/2013 4:26:05 PM PDT by RummyChick
The National Security Agency has at times mistakenly intercepted the private email messages and phone calls of Americans who had no link to terrorism, requiring Justice Department officials to report the errors to a secret national security court and destroy the data, according to two former U.S. intelligence officials.
At least some of the phone calls and emails were pulled from among the hundreds of millions stored by telecommunications companies as part of an NSA surveillance program. James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, Thursday night publicly acknowledged what he called “a sensitive intelligence collection program” after its existence was disclosed by the Guardian newspaper.
(Excerpt) Read more at openchannel.nbcnews.com ...
MISTAKENLY.
Um. Yeah.
The judges “were really upset about this,” said the former official. As a result, Attorney General Eric Holder pledged to the judges that the intelligence agencies would take steps to correct the problem as a condition of renewing the NSA’s surveillance program.
They got ANYTHING ANTI-OBAMA and these people will NOT GET MEDICAL CARE under OBAMACARE!! BEWARE.....this is DANGEROUS STUFF.
Yep, they're getting right on that data destruction folks. They'll be taking care of that any moment now...
Oops, my bad!
Oh yeah? Huh. Approximately how many times was that "mistake" made?
Any connection between those "mistake" intercepts and, say... oh just for instance... the targets of the "mistakes" being from a particular political party?
So that's one of the ways they got to Chief Justice John Roberts.
Obama is the Joe Isuzu of politics.
These surveillance reports are kind of disturbing. IMO, they represent a fundemental violation of the 4th Amendment but, more importantly, they represent how much freedom has been taken away from us with neither our knowledge or permission.
Our government is out-of-control and, if we don’t do something to get control over all these secret programs, we will find ourselves in a worse position than the Soviet Union. As it is, we’re not too far from it, now.
One day 80 million constitution loving Americans are going to mistakenly arm themselves and over throw this tyranny.
They’re lying.
They’ve been threatened with compromising info garnered from PRISM themselves.
Mistakenly ......my asz !
You can’t destroy electronic data in any meaningful sense.
National Kneepad Correspondent
“At least some”
Once you go over 3, you have ‘some.’
“They got ANYTHING ANTI-OBAMA and these people will NOT GET MEDICAL CARE under OBAMACARE!! BEWARE.....this is DANGEROUS STUFF.”
Have you read what care is being denied veterans? For being veterans?
You don’t have to be anti-0bama. You could have bought the wrong color toothbrush and be denied care or be audited or be followed.
Or you could flat out be killed or blown up. Or disappear.
This is what was selected. Twice.
It’s odd that they think themselves immune from what they are doing, no?
It’s only a mistake if they also “accidentally” delete information they meant to keep. If the error is always in favor of the government (as it is with employment numbers - always being revised down) then the act is intentional.
Sure they did/S
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