James Goodale: To reform the NSA, fire officials who lie

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To reform the NSA, fire officials who lie
I saw this at first hand over the Pentagon Papers case: the NSA has a culture of lying. That should be Obama's first concern
James Goodale, Wednesday 25 September 2013 07.30 EDT


The NSA has lied to the Congress, the courts, and perhaps even to the president himself, but no one seems to care.

The Director of National Intelligence James R Clapper admitted he lied to Congress about the NSA metadata collection program. He said the NSA had no such program – and then added that that was the least "untruthful" remark he could make. General Keith Alexander, director of the National Security Agency, lied in 2012 that the NSA does not hold data on US citizens, and repeated similar misstatements, under oath, to Congress about the program:

We're not authorized to do it [data collection on US citizens], nor do we do it.

NSA lawyers lied to secret Fisa court Judges John D Bates and Reggie B Walton. In recently released opinions, Bates said he had been lied to on three separate occasions and Walton said he had been lied to several times also.

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http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/25/nsa-reform-fire-officials-lied

Recall the following at time index 6:42 in the video:

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1. Look forward, not backward, said a President once

Not gonna happen.

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2. March is hardly backward. n/t

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3. Don't just fire them. Prosecute them.

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4. How true! n/t