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Feds Want Obama’s Internet Instructions Kept Quiet
Agency says presidential directive will not be made public
by Bob Unruh
The National Security Agency says a special directive from Barack Obama on the organization’s reach into private Internet communications will not be made public.
The announcement comes in a letter from the NSA’s Pamela Phillips to the Electronic Privacy Information Center, which had filed a Freedom of Information Act request for the document.
“Because the document is under the control of the National Security Staff (NSS), this agency consulted with the NSS,” the letter explained. “The document was reviewed by the NSS as required by the FOIA and was determined by the NSS to be exempt from release pursuant to the fifth exemption of the FOIA. This exemption applies to inter-agency or intra-agency memoranda or letters which would not be available by law to a party in litigation with the agency, protecting confidential communications between the president and his advisers.”
Phillips also said the document is classified “because its disclosure could reasonable be expected to cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security.”
EPIC sought the information because it pertained to the National Security Agency’s “authority to invade civilian networks.”
figures…they can do what they want till we finally stop them and i for one say enough is enough…cant they find something better to do or what are they out of children to molest?