Office of the Director of National Intelligence (Jun 10) - "Director
James R. Clapper Interview with Andrea Mitchell, NBC News Chief Foreign
Affairs Correspondent (Liberty Crossing, Tyson's Corner, VA: Jun 8, 1pm)":
http://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/speeches-and-interviews/195-speeches-interviews-2013/874-director-james-r-clapper-interview-with-andrea-mitchell
NBC (Jun 8) - "Clapper: Surveillance leaks fallout is 'gut-wrenching'":
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/21134540/vp/52144169#52144169
Ms. Mitchell: Senator Wyden made quite a lot out of your exchange with
him last March during the hearings. Can you explain what you meant
when you said there was not data collection on millions of Americans?
Director Clapper: First, as I said, I have great respect for Senator
Wyden. I thought though in retrospect I was asked when are you going
to start--stop beating your wife kind of question which is, meaning
not answerable necessarily, by a simple yes or no. So I responded in
what I thought was the most truthful or least most untruthful manner,
by saying, “No.” And again, going back to my metaphor, what I was
thinking of is looking at the Dewey Decimal numbers of those books in
the metaphorical library. To me collection of U.S. Persons data would
mean taking the books off the shelf, opening it up and reading it.
Amongst unrelated psychological hypotheses, I have encountered no better
proof that the NSA's operating legal definition of the verb "to collect"
stipulates a human being requesting specific information. This is the
legal cover NSA whistleblower Bill Binney has emphasized as enabling the
NSA's automated *collection* of digital content.
And yes, Director Clapper compared the NSA's datastore to "an electronic
library" - wherein you, and I, and all human beings are therefore: the
books.
Does Director Clapper know you cannot judge a book by its cover? ...
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