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I'm also quite curious about this. The article doesn't even seem to acknowledge the fact that Nadler disclosed supposedly classified information. The only thing
by burntsushi 13y ago
I'm also quite curious about this. The article doesn't even seem to acknowledge the fact that Nadler disclosed supposedly classified information. The only thing I can surmise is that a "classified briefing" may contain unclassified information:
Rep. Nadler's disclosure that NSA analysts can listen to calls without
court orders came during a House Judiciary hearing on Thursday that included
FBI director Robert Mueller as a witness.
Mueller initially sought to downplay concerns about NSA surveillance by
claiming that, to listen to a phone call, the government would need to seek "a
special, a particularized order from the FISA court directed at that particular
phone of that particular individual."
Is information about that procedure "classified in any way?" Nadler asked.
"I don't think so," Mueller replied.
"Then I can say the following," Nadler said. "We heard precisely the
opposite at the briefing the other day. We heard precisely that you could get
the specific information from that telephone simply based on an analyst
deciding that...In other words, what you just said is incorrect. So there's a
conflict."