NSA director says he has ‘no opinion’ of WikiLeaks, ‘I really don’t track them’

[Ichingcarpenter]

National Security Agency Director Gen. Keith Alexander said Sunday that he doesn’t track or hold an opinion of WikiLeaks, the anti-secrecy group apparently aiding the travel of Edward Snowden, the man who recently revealed information about sweeping U.S. government surveillance efforts.


“I have no opinion on Wikileaks. I really don’t track them. I really don’t know who Wikileaks are, other than this [Julian] Assange person,” Alexander said on ABC’s “This Week With George Stephanopoulos.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/06/23/nsa-director-says-he-has-no-opinion-of-wikileaks-i-really-dont-track-them/

Google Handed Over Emails of Wikileaks Volunteers to U.S. Government


On Tuesday, Google sent an email to the two former Wikileaks associates, informing them of the existence of the court orders, which until May 2 were secret. There is no official confirmation that the orders are related to the Wikileaks investigation being conducted by a federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, but every sign points in that direction.

After receiving secret court orders, Google handed over data from the Gmail accounts of two former Wikileaks volunteers to the U.S. government. The orders, revealed on Friday by the two targets, are a snapshot of the rumored federal grand jury investigation into Wikileaks and its founder, Julian Assange.

The targets of the court orders are Smari McCarthy and Herbert Snorrason, both from Iceland. McCarthy is an Internet activist and computer programmer who worked for Wikileaks until 2010. Snorrason helped manage the whistleblowing's website chatroom for two months in 2010.

http://mashable.com/2013/06/22/google-wikileaks/

[jsr]

1. Yeah, right

[JimDandy]

2. The NSA is surely tracking Wikileaks,

whether or not Alexander is personally tracking them or not.

[Ichingcarpenter]

3. Plausible deniability...lol

So he didn't really lie...

He was talking about his Dell PC at home tracking wikileaks not his agency.

LOL

[JimDandy]

5. Yes. How pathetic that the director of the National Security

Agency would even bother making such a weak, easily parsable statement.

[Katashi_itto]

9. Agree!

[Puzzledtraveller]

17. When I was younger I used to think that only the best and brightest held

these positions, that everyone in charge, in power, or deemed an expert were merited and truly the cream of the crop. If it was ever the case it isn't anymore, but I am believing more that it never was. Idiots ascend the ladders all the time and we just assume they have the brains.

[Downwinder]

4. Anyone want a bridge? Quit claim deed.

[JimDandy]

6. LOL. n/t

[Recursion]

7. Why would the NSA have information about a Federal Grand Jury investigation?

NSA isn't even a law enforcement organization.

"The Government" is not one big undifferentiated mass, and Federal Law Enforcement doesn't have the discretion of passing things on to the NSA that the NSA seems to have to pass on to law enforcement.

[newfie11]

8. And I have a bridge to sell

: rofl:

[frylock]

10. wikileaks? never heard of them.

this idiot is either lying out of his ass or incredibly inept. i'll let you decide.

[Marrah_G]

11. Such a liar

[Catherina]

12. Lol! n/t

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

13. In other news: General's burns substantial from pants fire.

[sibelian]

14. Well I suppose that *might* be true.

It seems a little bit unlikely.

[Pale Blue Dot]

15. LOL. Either he's lying or he sucks at his job.

The evidence is pointing to the latter, unfortunately.

[premium]

16. Yeaaaah, riiiiight,

and I've got some land in So. Nevada for sale,



Only used for some 40 years for nuclear weapons testing.