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The Switchboard: NSA can’t keep up with America’s switch to cellphones
- dalke 13y ago1) The actual link is http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-is-collecting-less-than-30-percent-of-us-call-data-officials-say/2014/02/07/234a0e9e-8fad-11e3-b46a-5a3d0d2130da_story.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-is... . 2) Great. Another news story full of anonymous "senior U.S. official" quotes, without even listing a reason for why they need to be anonymous. 3) Quoting the article: the NSA was collecting “closer to 100” percent of Americans’ phone records from a number of U.S. companies under a then-classified program, but as of last summer that share had plummeted to less than 30 percent. This last year or so has taught us all to be very careful on how US officials express themselves. Notice that it's "less than 30 percent" "under a then-classified program". Not less than 30% in total, including other still-classified programs. Ellen Nakashima, the author of that WaPo article, summarizes it as "less than 30 percent of all Americans’ call records", but the quotes do not say that, and I can easily conclude that the author has been mislead. Who are these officials? How do we know they know everything the government is doing? Why don't they tell us this information directly?