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They're trying to get a PR win out of that fact that---for now---they're not continuing the program. Later, when they've refined their technical infrastructure
by pc2g4d 9y ago
They're trying to get a PR win out of that fact that---for now---they're not continuing the program. Later, when they've refined their technical infrastructure in a way that makes it easy to comply with whatever new requirements the FISA judge(s) came up with, they'll resume the program but not tell a soul.
That's how I'm interpreting this, anyway. I hope I'm wrong.
- cma 9y agoAnd it may have been the only way to satisfy the court anyway, they had previously assured the court surrounding communications to these wouldn't be searched, and then they were searching them too (so even if you didn't mention a targeted email, if your email was in an internal email provider bundle (like a backup across data centers), it was getting searched too: >But last year, officials said, the N.S.A. discovered that analysts were querying the bundled messages in a way that did not comply with those rules. The agency brought the matter to the court’s attention, resulting in a delay in reauthorizing the broader warrantless surveillance program until the agency proposed ceasing this collection practice.