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This makes sense to me. It's highly illegal, to the point of treason and violating national security, to even acknowledge the existence of a FISA request, PRISM
by dylangs1030 13y ago
This makes sense to me. It's highly illegal, to the point of treason and violating national security, to even acknowledge the existence of a FISA request, PRISM or otherwise. No one involved in the entire FISA request would be able to reveal that to even a coworker, let alone the public, under penalty of 20 years to life in prison.
Furthermore, the NSA strictly forbid employees who complied with FISA requests to even speak of it to high ranking chief executives. In other words, it's highly likely even the CEOs didn't know a great extent of the FISA requests flowing through their networks.
- gasull 13y agoThey could have worded it as "This report might not include certain requests whose secrecy is mandated by the law, like FISA requests. Google does not confirm nor deny having received such requests."
- thoughtcriminal 13y agoHow do Americans tolerate a government like this? How do US companies? Is everyone living there delusional? What an effing nightmare.