The Obama Administration Has Failed To Make The Case For The NSA Surveillance Programs

More Fog From The Spy Agencies -- New York Times editorial

The Obama administration released narrowly selected and heavily censored documents and sent more officials to testify before Congress on Wednesday in an effort to defend the legality and value of the surveillance of all Americans’ telephone calls. The effort was a failure.

The documents clarified nothing of importance, and the hearing raised major new questions about whether the intelligence agencies had been misleading Congress and the public about the electronic dragnet. At the end of the day, we were more convinced than ever that the government had yet to come clean on the legal arguments and court orders underlying the surveillance.

The documents were released before the start of a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the government’s secret surveillance programs, details of which were disclosed in documents published by The Guardian, a British newspaper, showing that the United States has been vacuuming up data on every phone call made by every American.

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My Comment: This is why we need to be worried.