Post by jamshundred on Apr 24, 2019 23:04:08 GMT
NSA Recommends Dropping Phone-Surveillance Program
(article published in the Wall Street Journal. This is just headline and first paragraph)
The program, created after 9/11, has encountered compliance challenges and questions about its efficacy in recent years
By Dustin Volz and Warren P. Strobel
( Wall Street Journal)
Updated April 24, 2019 5:31 p.m. ET
The National Security Agency has recommended that the White House abandon a surveillance program that collects information about U.S. phone calls and text messages, saying the logistical and legal burdens of keeping it outweigh its intelligence benefits, according to people familiar with the matter.
(article published in the Wall Street Journal. This is just headline and first paragraph)
The program, created after 9/11, has encountered compliance challenges and questions about its efficacy in recent years
By Dustin Volz and Warren P. Strobel
( Wall Street Journal)
Updated April 24, 2019 5:31 p.m. ET
The National Security Agency has recommended that the White House abandon a surveillance program that collects information about U.S. phone calls and text messages, saying the logistical and legal burdens of keeping it outweigh its intelligence benefits, according to people familiar with the matter.
Comment: This is a reversal of previous position.
The article on 702 FISA abuse posted here "went national" on the web, with mention in web articles and twitter, and I suspect there has been a hullabaloo. Your everyday American citizen rarely has any idea of "stuff" like this.
Some years ago I had a Dexter friend with a high-classified clearance, who was in a relationship with another person who worked in intelligence. I was told that Americans have NO idea of the the amount of information the government was collecting and storing. I was told it was massive. Other than the general knowledge that "all our phone calls and texts and emails" were being collected by the government, I had NO idea until information of FISA abuse began to surface after the Maxine Walters taped interview nor how easily the system could be used to bully or blackmail or target political figures or business associates, or . . .. . . . I am now interested to know who those "private contractors" were who had access to this top secret classified database without proper clearance or permission. Don't you?