Senator presses NSA to reveal whether it spies on members of Congress
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Re: Senator presses NSA to reveal whether it spies on members of Congress
#2I'm not sure why this particular question is relevant. It seems to assume that members of Congress should be better protected in their privacy than the rest of us.
But I submit that the opposite is true: they should be scrutinized to a much greater degree, and (nearly) everything they do in their office should be an open book to us.
Re: Senator presses NSA to reveal whether it spies on members of Congress
#3Uhh of course they do. Why would they be exempt? If anything they are a legitimate target for fears of compromising national security.
Re: Senator presses NSA to reveal whether it spies on members of Congress
#4"...if the NSA has spied, or is the NSA currently spying, on members of Congress or other American elected officials"
It depends on your definitions of "has", "spied", "spying", "currently", "elected" and "members".
So the answer is, "No".
Re: Senator presses NSA to reveal whether it spies on members of Congress
#5Uhh of course they do. Why would they be exempt? If anything they are a legitimate target for fears of compromising national security.
congress legit targets? when the system can't trust someone, the system can not be trusted.
Re: Senator presses NSA to reveal whether it spies on members of Congress
#6Uhh of course they do. Why would they be exempt? If anything they are a legitimate target for fears of compromising national security.
The goal is to have an answer on record.
Re: Senator presses NSA to reveal whether it spies on members of Congress
#7This result of this should be interesting.
Re: Senator presses NSA to reveal whether it spies on members of Congress
#8Only for training purposes, with recordings promptly destroyed! See from 1995 (!):
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1995-12-12/news/1995346001_...
FTA:
"We listened to all the calls in and out of Washington," says one former NSA linguist, recalling a class at the Warrenton Training Center, a CIA communications school on a Virginia hilltop. "We'd listen to senators, representatives, government agencies, housewives talking to their lovers."
Re: Senator presses NSA to reveal whether it spies on members of Congress
#9"...if the NSA has spied, or is the NSA currently spying, on members of Congress or other American elected officials" It depends on your definitions of "has", "spied", "spying", "currently", "elected" and "members". So the answer is, "No".
I find it very depressing that semantics and definitions of fairly common-sense words are at the center of this particular set of weaseling.
Re: Senator presses NSA to reveal whether it spies on members of Congress
#10Uhh duh? Can't have those closest to you acting up..