White House Surveillance Response: 'Only a Very Small Percentage' Examined
Insists in the face of latest news that people's e-mails aren't being read.
White House press secretary Jay Carney defended National Security Agency programs on Thursday, saying they "examine only a very small percentage" of the world's Internet traffic.
Carney insisted that emails sent by ordinary Americans overseas were "not being read" and that NSA was only collecting information it was "explicitly authorized" to collect.
"And while NSA analysts examine only a very small percentage of the world's traffic, if communications of U.S. persons are incidentally collected, the agency must follow minimization procedures that are approved by the U.S. attorney general and designed to protect the privacy of U.S. persons," he said at his daily press briefing.
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Akin to promises like, “I’ll only put in the tip,” or “I promise I won’t ejaculate in your mouth.”
The check’s in the mail! It’s on the truck out for delivery! I promise, honey, I won’t drink too much tonight!
Lying sack of shit…
To examine any without court order is illegal. The FISA court has to approve according to the law, however I’m sure it is being violated. At first they insisted that email, text and phone calls were not recorded only the telephone number and date, that has changed with pressure. They need to dump the Patriot Act as Un-Patriotic and unconstitutional.