NSA: It Would Violate Your Privacy to Say if We Spied on You

[JMH]

The surveillance experts at the National Security Agency won’t tell two powerful United States Senators how many Americans have had their communications picked up by the agency as part of its sweeping new counterterrorism powers. The reason: it would violate your privacy to say so.

That claim comes in a short letter sent Monday to civil libertarian Senators Ron Wyden and Mark Udall. The two members of the Senate’s intelligence oversight committee asked the NSA a simple question last month: under the broad powers granted in 2008′s expansion of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, how many persons inside the United States have been spied upon by the NSA?

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/06/nsa-spied/#more-83879

 

[jcgriff2]

The answer = 350 million!

 

[zigzag3143]

Another source

http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/19/3096951/nsa-privacy-investigation-violate-FISA

 

[TheCyberMan]

1. They are a secret organisation and should stay that way opening themselves can be very damaging remember william colby and the oversight senate committee hearings from 1973 it compremised many agents in some cases sending them to their deaths .

Poliitical expediency is not worth that.

They have to do the dirty work of a government and have to wear a white hat and black hat similtaneously, they have to try and stay ahead of the game in regards to terrorism and foreign spies and sometimes have to do things that we may not agree with but can be essential to the national security of a nation.

If you are innocent you have nothing to worry about even if you have innocent associations with identified subversives or suspected spies as long as you are not involved in helping them in any way.

 

[jcgriff2]

NSA is covered under The Patriot Act & therefore needs no FISA warrants.