Let's Be Clear, say Legal Experts, What NSA Is Doing Is 'Criminal'

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74. Wow - you haven't been paying attention.

I'm serious - this is absolutely nothing new. James Clapper publicly admitted last Sunday the monitoring of communications of millions of Americans:

"Back at an open congressional hearing on March 12, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) asked Clapper, “Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?” Clapper replied, “No sir … not wittingly.” As we all now know, he was lying.

We also now know that Clapper knew he was lying. In an interview with NBC’s Andrea Mitchell that aired this past Sunday, Clapper was asked why he answered Wyden the way he did. He replied:

“I thought, though in retrospect, I was asked [a] ‘when are you going to … stop beating your wife’ kind of question, which is … not answerable necessarily by a simple yes or no. So I responded in what I thought was the most truthful, or least untruthful, manner by saying, ‘No.’ ”

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/2013/06/fire_dni_james_clapper_he_lied_to_congress_about_nsa_surveillance.html

I don't know whether it's stored somewhere; Snowden claims it is. But it doesn't even matter - it's been intercepted, and the interception is illegal.

As far as Sensenbrenner's statement, it seems extremely gullible to me to believe that an organization like NSA, if they were indeed illegally wiretapping mllions of Americans, that they are going to reveal that to a U.S. Senator.

These people are vigilante scumbags.