May as well make it look like NSA is not paying millions per sploit.

There is no jury box at SCOTUS. Nor at FISC for that matter.

That would speed things up a wee bit.

How do *you* think he was caught? Link

Cover story or accurate?

They can not keep their talking points straight, so they keep changing them. Complex lies are difficult to communicate.

Because if he is telling a lie, then he is not revealing classified info.

Well, of course it had a decent crowd.

Where else can the employees use their coupons for their dog food?

No, you have two senators right now. William "Mo" Cowan may be an interim senator, but he is still a senator for at least 12 more days.

Every three months they have to renew the warrants. That is 'hard work'. Ask GWB.

You need to read the article at Link

Snowden said that according to unverified documents seen by the Post, the NSA had been hacking computers in Hong Kong and on the mainland since 2009. None of the documents revealed any information about Chinese military systems, he said.

One of the targets in the SAR, according to Snowden, was Chinese University and public officials, businesses and students in the city. The documents also point to hacking activity by the NSA against mainland targets.

Snowden believed there had been more than 61,000 NSA hacking operations globally, with hundreds of targets in Hong Kong and on the mainland.

“We hack network backbones – like huge internet routers, basically – that give us access to the communications of hundreds of thousands of computers without having to hack every single one,” he said.

That is way more than "doing it to foil terrorist attacks".

He has not announced that he will be running for Vice President yet.

They are storing the data. It is that they are just not intentionally looking at all of it. When they have a target, then they do the google on the data. There is too much data to look at all of it every day.

So, he was lying when he said the reports are inaccurate. That makes everything as clear as mud.

Doesn't the NSA farm that that that out to the Department of Redundancy Department?

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