NSA director admits to misleading public on terror plots

[BelgianMadCow]

The administration has been amping up stats about foiled plots to bolster support for mass surveillance

In so many words, NSA director Keith Alexander admitted Wednesday that the Obama administration had issued misleading information about terror plots and their foiling to bolster support for the government’s vast surveillance apparatus.

During Wednesday’s hearing, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy pushed Alexander to admit that plot numbers had been fudged in a revealing interchange.

More at Salon. Headline news here in Belgium, too.

[gopiscrap]

1. THat fucker needs to resign!

[BelgianMadCow]

2. Not to up your blood pressure, but here's more about it in a Washington Times article

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/2/nsa-chief-figures-foiled-terror-plots-misleading/

Director of National IntelligenceJames R. Clapper denied that the number of plots foiled should be the sole metric by which the success of the program is measured. “I think there’s another metric here that’s very important. … I would call it the ‘peace of mind’ metric."

[gopiscrap]

3. yeah that's horrible and the Washington Times isn't

even a moderate newspaper yet alone liberal, so you just know that there is a quite a bit more to it than just this.

[leveymg]

4. $8 billion a year to catch 2 guys? Maybe not even that many. Time to trim that tree.

[BelgianMadCow]

10. I forgot how many times over global poverty could be solved

With what is spent yearly on bombs and war. I doubt We The People would eff up our priorities so bad, if we had a real and direct say.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. I really need to find a new surprised face

To play pretend.

This is a classic of early total states.

[Hydra]

6. Oh, look!

They LIED. What a surprise.

Any NSA apologists want to take a crack at this now? All that money we're spending is NOT being directed at terrorism. It's directed at US.

[Downtown Hound]

7. And yet, he still has a job.

Um, sure. Why not?

[Uncle Joe]

8. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, BelgianMadCow.

[BelgianMadCow]

12. Thank you, Uncle Joe

[Uncle Joe]

13. ..

Peace to you, BelgianMadCow.

[KoKo]

9. Seriously...Alexander and Clapper need to go...

[The Big Green]

11. What else is new...

they all lie.

[Scuba]

14. “These weren’t all plots, and they weren’t all foiled,” Leahy said, asking Alexander ...

“These weren’t all plots, and they weren’t all foiled,” Leahy said, asking Alexander, “Would you agree with that, yes or no?”

“Yes,” replied Alexander.

Jail time for those who purjure themselves in testimony to Congress.

[morningfog]

15. Brick by brick. More lies from the Administration revealed.

[sendero]

16. I knew it was bullshit.

.... when they said it. First it was 20. Then it was 50. And then ''''crickets''''.

They probably cannot come up with a SINGLE REAL TERROR PLOT that they successfully foiled. Not ONE.

[Buns_of_Fire]

17. What about that Klingon terror cell on Morphius-Jujube-3?

StarFleet Commander Alexander still hasn't captured Khan, though. For that, he'll need another $3 billion.

[sendero]

18. Oh ..

... I forgot that one

Seriously, these lies are why I don't trust a single word out of the mounts of these folks. They will say ANYTHING, their entire world view is one of deception 24/7 and it makes me sick that my tax dollars are paying these people's salary.