[Congressional] inquiries have led to concerns in Congress about the agency’s ability to collect and read domestic e-mail messages of Americans on a widespread basis, officials said. Supporting that conclusion is the account of a former N.S.A. analyst who, in a series of interviews, described being trained in 2005 for a program in which the agency routinely examined large volumes of Americans’ e-mail messages without court warrants. Two intelligence officials confirmed that the program was still in operation.
Great.
Here's the money quote:
“For the Hill, the issue is a sense of scale, about how much domestic e-mail collection is acceptable,” a former intelligence official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because N.S.A. operations are classified. “It’s a question of how many mistakes they can allow.”Yes, how much poison is too much? Way to frame the issue, there.
I get that email is a hard technology to put geographic restrictions on, but give me a freaking break.
(H/t emptywheel)
1 comment:
this makes me want to post a set of really juicy e-mail texts online, containing variants of the best 'stop-words' -- for people to copy, paste into e-mail messages, and spam everyone in the world with. just to make noise. just to render the nsa's activities more obviously pointless than they already are. just to make us free once more from unreasonable search and seizure. and to free us from paying the nsa to unreasonably search and seize. i don't trust those guys to *understand* anything they read, much less interpret it.
sincerely,
one guess who.
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