The NSA saga reaches new clownish heights!

Aaron Jones October 28, 2013 No Comments

Admin denies halting spying against American allies

(The whole NSA story is reaching epic levels of absurdity. I set out to encapsulates today’s news, but I’m at a total loss. Just look at these headlines and excerpts…)

A senior administration official on Monday rejected Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Diane Feinstein’s claim that the U.S. has halted intelligence collection against its allies.

In a statement released earlier Monday, the California Democrat said that the White House “has informed me that collection on our allies will not continue.”

But the administration official called that statement “not accurate.”

“While we have made some individual changes, which I cannot detail, we have not made across the board changes in policy like, for example, terminating intelligence collection that might be aimed at all allies,” the administration official said…

Read more from The Hill. Now, guess who’s turned on the NSA?

We’re Really Screwed Now’: NSA’s Best Friend Just Shivved The Spies

One of the National Security Agency’s biggest defenders in Congress is suddenly at odds with the agency and calling for a top-to-bottom review of U.S. spy programs. And her long-time friends and allies are completely mystified by the switch.

“We’re really screwed now,” one NSA official told The Cable. “You know things are bad when the few friends you’ve got disappear without a trace in the dead of night and leave no forwarding address.”

In a pointed statement issued today, Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Dianne Feinstein said she was “totally opposed” to gathering intelligence on foreign leaders and said it was “a big problem” if President Obama didn’t know the NSA was monitoring the phone calls of German Chancellor Angela Merkel. She said the United States should only be spying on foreign leaders with hostile countries, or in an emergency, and even then the president should personally approve the surveillance…(I wonder if Snowden has recordings of Feinstein’s phone calls? Is this just a bait and switch?)

Admin denies halting spying against American allies

We’re Really Screwed Now’: NSA’s Best Friend Just Shivved The Spies

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