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Can you please (please!) tell me where there's proof that their definition of 'collect' has changed to mean that in their usage. I have suspected that is what F
by eliasmacpherson 13y ago
Can you please (please!) tell me where there's proof that their definition of 'collect' has changed to mean that in their usage. I have suspected that is what Feinstein and others have used as its meaning, but I can't prove it. I have enough proof to satisfy myself they have redefined 'acquire' here, but 'collect' would be nice too, if you would oblige!
"Well, as James R. Clapper Jr., the director of national intelligence, told Andrea Mitchell of NBC, the N.S.A. uses the word “acquire” only when it pulls information out of its gigantic database of communications and not when it first intercepts and stores the information." [1]
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/28/opinion/the-criminal-nsa.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/28/opinion/the-criminal-nsa....
- Amadou 13y agoI don't remember where I first saw it, but it is mentioned on this list of NSA word redefinitions that the EFF is keeping track of: https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying/wordgames https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying/wordgames