Senators: NSA must correct inaccurate claims over privacy protections

[babsbunny]

Senators: NSA must correct inaccurate claims over privacy protections

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/24/senators-nsa-letter-inaccurate-information-privacy

Ron Wyden and Mark Udall write to head of NSA to correct portrayals of surveillance restrictions on website factsheet

Spencer Ackerman in Washington
guardian.co.uk, Monday 24 June 2013 18.21 EDT

Two senators on the intelligence committee on Monday accused the National Security Agency of publicly presenting "inaccurate" information about the privacy protections on its surveillance on millions of internet communications.

However, in a demonstration of the intense secrecy surrounding NSA surveillance even after Edward Snowden's revelations, the senators claimed they could not publicly identify the allegedly misleading section or sections of a factsheet without compromising classified information.

Senators Ron Wyden (Democrat, Oregon) and Mark Udall (Democrat, Colorado) wrote to General Keith Alexander, the director of the NSA, to correct "inaccurate" portrayals about restrictions on surveillance published in a factsheet available on the NSA's homepage. The factsheet, concerning NSA's powers under Section 702 of the 2008 Fisa Amendments Act, was also supplied to members of Congress.

"We were disappointed to see that this factsheet contains an inaccurate statement about how the section 702 authority has been interpreted by the US government," Wyden and Udall wrote to Alexander, in a letter dated 24 June and acquired by the Guardian.

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. This is part of the real effort to bring the intelligence complex under control

and it deserves more attention than how many laptops Snowden carries around with him. Thanks for posting, and perhaps Americans could thank this pair of senators who are trying to fix their country? They deserve support.

[Catherina]

2. +1000000 n/t

[MotherPetrie]

3. K&R

[sabrina 1]

4. They need to release them from the gag order. They are Reps of the people who have a

right to know what is going on with this.

[cthulu2016]

5. The truth is classified. Hell, you're lucky you got half-truths.

[Hydra]

6. I hope they don't kill these Senators

Because they seem to be the only ones from the intel group who want to go to bat for us. If we had to depend on DiFi, we'd never heard about it.