Lyin’, Spying And Shredding The Constitution–Do You Really Believe NSA Stopped? video and picture

Do spies ever tell the truth? Espcially to politicians whose only interest is getting re-electred? 

Politicians and presidents come and go. Bureaucracies build their power and reach over the long haul, when the policicians who want to reign them in are dust.

There’s a significant discrepancy, one that deserves more attention, between what the NSA told the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court five years ago about the call-tracking by Fast Free Converter”>program and what the agency is telling ordinary federal courts about the program now.  It told the FISC five years ago that the program was indispensable, but it’s saying something quite different today.

From recently released documents, we know that in 2008 the NSA asked the FISC to reauthorize the call-tracking program, a program the FISC had first authorized two years earlier. The FISC obliged, issuing an order that permitted the NSA to continue collecting information about essentially all telephone calls made or received on U.S. telephone networks, subject to “minimization requirements” restricting the government’s access to information collected under the program. In reauthorizing the program, the FISC relied on representations from the government about the program’s importance and the feasibility of tracking suspected terrorists’ associations through other, less intrusive means. We know about these representations because in his March 2009 opinion describing the NSA’s “frequent[] and systesmic[]” violation of the minimization requirements, Judge Reggie Walton had this to say MOREHERE

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