Pres. Obama claimed ‘not collecting U.S. emails’ Did he lie?
On June 7th 2013 President Obama said the National Security Agency’s email collecting program “does not apply to U.S. citizens and it does not apply to people living in the United States.” Today’s revelations from Glenn Greenwald appear to contradict this claim completely.
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BREAKING…
Our new EXCLUSIVE: NSA collected US email records in bulk for more than two years under Obama http://t.co/Wno2EyArs7
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) June 27, 2013
We also published – for the first time – the top secret draft report of NSA’s IG on post-9/11 domestic surveillance http://t.co/kX2sSnuyve
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) June 27, 2013
Review of top-secret NSA documents suggests that the surveillance agency still collects and sifts through large quantities of Americans’ online data – despite the Obama administration’s insistence that the program that began under Bush ended in 2011.