For me the weekend raised more questions than it provided answers
The list, Ping
Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list
An admitted LIAR to Congress.
So the question becomes:
Was HE the one who left Americans
to die in Benghazi OR Boston?
Meanwhile terrorists in Afghanistan buy a disposable phone, make two calls then they pitch it.
Ah ha! So it depends on the meaning of “collection”. Good to know, now. Everybody lying about this belongs in jail. Every last stooge.
Yeah, my trust in the government is certainly restored!
(sarcasm tag off)
Back in the 90’s, I was working at the NSA at Ft. Meade as a contractor for some equipment we had sold them.
My contact there told me that “If someone in Siberia talks on a walkie-talkie at four in the morning, we have it.”...........
They monitor EVERYTHING in electronic communications on this planet. PERIOD.........
A Democrat district attorney took a political case against me to our State Attorney General, John Cornyn at the time, (case # JC-0330), on the basis of what the word “or” meant in a sentence. The district attorney lost and I won. I knew I was right to start with. That Democrat District Attorney lost his next election.
“...to me, collection of U.S. persons’ data would mean taking the book off the shelf and opening it up and reading it.”
Could that meaning be used for, say, a gun collection???
“Too cute by half” doesn’t even begin to describe it. When you state that you are collecting phone numbers but no names in an age when the average grade-schooler can do a reverse lookup from his cell phone you are lying, period.
So, a library is only a collection of books(data) when it’s open and people are reading books?
Buy stock in tar and feathers because we need it by the truckload.
“If your excuse is that you are incapable of discerning what “any type of data at all” means, you are no longer allowed to keep a job title that has the word “intelligence” in it.”
- Jim Geraghty, National Review
This goes out to the Threat Matrix Ping List. Anyone wanting on or off, you know the routine, I think.
depends on what ‘is’, is.
Andrea Mitchell: What’s your favorite color?
Director Clapper: Plaid.
AM: Favorite ice cream?
DC: Neapolitan.
AM: I’m throwing you softballs, but I get the feeling those aren’t the least untruthful answers.
DC: You can’t handle the truth hatchetface.
Where I come from testifying in the least untruthful manner is called perjury.
What’s he’s really saying that since any answer he gave other than “no” would be construed as a yes (even if he asked for a 5 minutes to have the attorneys discuss the matter) he decided to just lie and say no.
...”The outsourcing plan was finalized in 2000 by a special NSA Advisory Board set up to determine the agencys future and codified in a secret report written by a then-obscure intelligence officer named James Clapper. Clapper did a one-man study for the NSA Advisory Board, recalls Ed Loomis, a 40-year NSA veteran who, along with Binney and two others, blew the whistle on corporate corruption at the NSA.
His recommendation was that NSA acquire its internet capabilities from the private sector. The idea was, the private sector had the capability and we at NSA didnt need to reinvent the wheel.
Hayden, who was the NSA director at the time, put a lot of trust in the private sector in the private sector, and a lot of trust in Clapper, because Clapper was his mentor, added Loomis. And once he got approval, he was hell-bent on privatization and nothing was going to derail that. Clapper is now President Obamas director of national intelligence, and has denounced the Guardian leaks as reprehensible.?...
http://mediachecker.wordpress.com/2013/06/11/meet-some-of-the-contractors-who-analyze-your-personal-data/