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Clapper: "the NSA does not voyeuristically pore through U.S. citizens’ e-mails" Obama: "the NSA can't listen to your calls" The denial I would like to hear: t
by ipsin 13y ago
Clapper: "the NSA does not voyeuristically pore through U.S. citizens’ e-mails"
Obama: "the NSA can't listen to your calls"
The denial I would like to hear: the NSA does not collect your e-mails, phone calls or internet traffic. The lack of a denial is looking very suspicious, and a careful reader is forced to act as if it's all being vacuumed up.
Their promises only relate to when that data may be used.
- declan 13y agoNo... Collect has a very specific meaning to the NSA. Collect means when data have "been received for use by an employee of a DoD intelligence [that is, NSA] component in the course of his official duties" http://atsdio.defense.gov/documents/5242.html http://atsdio.defense.gov/documents/5242.html "Acquire" or "intercept" or "intake in any way" would be better. The language is very slippery here.
- Zigurd 13y ago#leastuntruthful
- samstave 13y agoAdditionally, imagine them reading a stream in real-time -- they could still certainly analyze passing traffic - and keep a ticker of flagged items, by type, rather than "collecting"
- ipsin 13y agoThank you for helping me decode the double-speak. I had previously read that "collect" had a specific meaning for the NSA, but I'd assumed that meaning also made sense within the context of the English language.
- jacobparker 13y agoThat particular instance isn't an example of doublespeak ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublespeak http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublespeak ) it's just jargon.