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In reply to the discussion: Report Indicates Snowden/Greenwald Lied About Key Claims [View all]Waiting For Everyman
(9,385 posts)This is not an official report of any kind, as you're clearly trying to pass it off to be. It's a run-of-the-mill story by a run-of-the-mill reporter at the WaPo, recycled from a denier at Kos no different from the deniers we have here.
Tsk, tsk, shame on you, for trying to foist a deception on us.
But in any event, just to be clear on this one point -- for this time and the rest of the times you keep trying to do this... I don't give a flying rat's ass if Snowden AND Greenwald both lied ten ways from Sunday. What I do care about is getting definitive answers from the NSA to the Congress, and via them to us, about NSA's activities that S&G and other reporters have exposed.
If NSA wants to clear this up, it can start by answering all the inquiries of Congressmen and Senators they have stonewalled up to now, and without the bs "plausible deniability" weasel clauses. Secondly, its little partner in crime, the FISA court, can get busy and release all those top secret opinions and decisions it has issued at NSA's demand. And from the FBI and whoever else is issuing them, we need a validity check on all the 200,000 National Security Letters that have been sent out to date (97% with accompanying unlimited gag orders attached). Until then, NSA is full of crap. And so is whoever defends its practices. And so is a lame so-called "report" like this, because NSA is capable of speaking for itself the way its supposed to: on the record, under oath.