Yet more smoke ... still no fire. Stay tuned; this will go on for awhile.
Yet more smoke ... still no fire. Stay tuned; this will go on for awhile.
James Comey testimony: Trump asked me to let Flynn investigation go
Your brilliant (not) retort is: "Do you have any evidence it was NOT done properly?"
We have no evidence whatsoever.
rickyp wrote:
fateYour brilliant (not) retort is: "Do you have any evidence it was NOT done properly?"
It IS a brilliant retort.
You claim there is no evidence for collusion. And I think we can all agree that there is perhaps a pattern of behaviors but no definitive evidence yet. Perhaps never.
But you are willing to conclude that the unmasking of certain Trump associates was done improperly...even though the NSA had to approve the unmasking.
Which requires one to believe that NSA agents would have to be corrupt...
And yet there is no evidence that such corruption exists..
So, again, if the NSA approved the unmasking ... what makes unmasking them wrong? Of wait, as you said
The National Security Agency spent Friday on the defensive, after details got out about an internal audit that found the agency had broken privacy rules "thousands of times each year" since 2008.
The audit was first reported by the Washington Post on Thursday, setting off another round of heated discussion -- and criticism -- in Washington over how the NSA had wrongly impinged on Americans' privacy.
"I ... will continue to demand honest and forthright answers from the intelligence community," said Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, noting the Senate Judiciary Committee he chairs will hold a hearing on the Post's revelations. "I remain concerned that we are still not getting straightforward answers from the NSA."
In a call with reporters Friday, John DeLong -- the NSA's director of compliance -- acknowledged "mistakes occur," even as he insisted only a "tiny" amount of such problems were intentional.
"No one at NSA thinks a mistake is OK," DeLong said several times in the call, which a spokesman said was conducted to "address inaccuracies."
NSA leaker Edward Snowden -- whose ongoing leaks have riled the Obama administration and intelligence community -- provided the material to the Post earlier this summer.
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The May 2012 audit found 2,776 incidents of "unauthorized collection, storage, access to or distribution of legally protected communications" in the preceding 12 months, the Post reported in its story.
"Most were unintended. Many involved failures of due diligence or violations of standard operating procedure," said the Post article by reporter Barton Gellman. "The most serious incidents included a violation of a court order and unauthorized use of data about more than 3,000 Americans and green-card holders."
It is unclear whether Mr. Goldstone had direct knowledge of the origin of the damaging material. One person who was briefed on the emails said it appeared that he was passing along information that had been passed through several others.
freeman3 wrote:The police do appreciate it when suspects turn in all of the incriminating evidence to them. Very sporting.
freeman3 wrote:Reading the New York Times Article it said "one person who was briefed on the emails." Hmm, Mueller investigation? Seems to be prosecutorial-type lingo.