NSA’s Intercepts Exceed Limits Set by Congress
April 16th, 2009Captain Obvious, is that you?
Via: New York Times:
The National Security Agency intercepted private e-mail messages and phone calls of Americans in recent months on a scale that went beyond the broad legal limits established by Congress last year, according to government officials.
Several intelligence officials, as well as lawyers briefed about the matter, said the N.S.A. had been engaged in “over-collection” of domestic communications of Americans. They described the practice as significant and systemic, although one official said it was believed to be unintentional.
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They described the practice as significant and systemic, although one official said it was believed to be unintentional.
Let’s see… we want what we want (in this case all the private data we can get our sociopathic hands on), but it isn’t legal to get as much as we want, so… Hmmmm… I know! INCOMPETENCE! That ALWAYS works! We’ll just do whatever the f*ck we feel like, and if/when we’re caught, we’ll just say it was an unfortunate mistake. Our bad. It’s worked for everybody else in the Federal government (and on Wall St., for that matter), 100-f’ing-percent of the time. Why shouldn’t it work now?
It’s Miller time!