NSA chief not concerned by congressional inquiries

[sabra]

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=politicsNews&storyid=2006-01-07T001450Z_01_KWA700815_RTRUKOC_0_US-SECURITY-EAVESDROPPING.xml

NSA chief not concerned by congressional inquiries

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the National Security Agency told employees last month that NSA officials had not violated U.S. law by participating in an agency program that eavesdrops on U.S. citizens without judicial oversight, newly released documents show.

"Media coverage surmises that administration and agency officials may have acted unlawfully -- notions I reject, categorically!" NSA Director Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander assured agency employees in a December 22 message.

He acknowledged that Congress may schedule hearings on the domestic spying program, which President George W. Bush authorized in 2002 to eavesdrop on Americans' telephone calls and e-mails without first obtaining warrants.

"Overall, we are not concerned," the NSA director said. "Our operations are carefully deliberated and measured; they are within the law; and they are nobly executed with strict oversight."

[Cha]

1. "...nobly executed with strict oversight."

Sounds like something the bushites told him to say..how noble is spying on journalists?

They're not after terrorists ..they are after the enemies of fascists.

[Straight Shooter]

2. "nobly"?

WTF is that word doing in there? What could possibly be "noble" about spying on U.S. citizens without a warrant, especially when you have a 72-hour window to obtain the warrant?

Sounds like a bluff to me.

[Triana]

3. So because HE says so...

...that makes it true? I'd like the facts pertaining to exactly what they did, to whom, how, when, and why. Then I want that activity compared with the law and the constituion, and any potential inconsistencies examined - THEN I'll decide what to believe.

"Just because Keith Alexander said so" is not acceptable. WHO cares what HE thinks?

If a murderer kills your family - do you CARE if the murderer thinks what he did is legal?


Hell no.

[rodeodance]

4. that caught my eye also. My gawd, how stupid do they think we are?

nobly executed with strict oversight."

[BR_Parkway]

5. So now you know what to say if you get subpeoned - get back to

work everyone.

[nashville_brook]

6. operation "Firstfruit"

"Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest . . . " - Leviticus 23:9

[struggle4progress]

7. Translation: "We tapped your phone, too, Mr. Congress Critter, so ..

.. watch your fuggin step, or you'll be readin about yourself in the newspaper."

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

8. Didn't realize it was NSA's job to interpret the law

This here good ol' boy must be a real legal eagle!

[Thor_MN]

9. Not concerned because he has his "Get out of Jail Free" letter tucked away

* gave him a personal autograph to say it was just hunky-dory to break the law, so he doesn't care. He's been premptively pardoned.

[sendero]

10. Oh really...

... well Mr. Alexander, I have a proposal for you. You turn over the identifying information of every one of the folks who were surveilled without a warrant to a congressional committee. Oh, those names have been "purged"? Why? And you expect us to believe you?