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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1181371" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/08/04/us-secrets-and-lies-unravel-in-nsa-leaks/" target="_blank"><strong>US secrets—and lies—unravel in NSA leaks - MSNBC</strong></a></p><p></p><p>Eight weeks ago a series of explosive leaks blew the hinges off the closet containing the National Security Agency’s skeletons.</p><p></p><p>Before Snowden’s leaks, reauthorizations of laws like the Patriot Act or the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Amendments Act were mere occasions for Cassandras in Congress to espouse vague prophesies about the eroding of American freedoms. Legislation was crafted in such opaque terms that the government could collect information on Americans as long as it wasn’t “targeting them,” or when one end of the communication was presumed to be outside the country. Legislators used that linguistic distinction to publicly insist no information was being gathered on Americans at all.</p><p></p><p>“What made this so important was not simply that it was unknown or unfamiliar, but that it was directly at odds with what the public had been told was the case,” says Steven Aftergood, director of the Federation of American Scientists’ Project on Government Secrecy. “In other words, it meant we had been misled.”</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1181371, member: 1"] [URL="http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/08/04/us-secrets-and-lies-unravel-in-nsa-leaks/"][B]US secrets—and lies—unravel in NSA leaks - MSNBC[/B][/URL] Eight weeks ago a series of explosive leaks blew the hinges off the closet containing the National Security Agency’s skeletons. Before Snowden’s leaks, reauthorizations of laws like the Patriot Act or the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Amendments Act were mere occasions for Cassandras in Congress to espouse vague prophesies about the eroding of American freedoms. Legislation was crafted in such opaque terms that the government could collect information on Americans as long as it wasn’t “targeting them,” or when one end of the communication was presumed to be outside the country. Legislators used that linguistic distinction to publicly insist no information was being gathered on Americans at all. “What made this so important was not simply that it was unknown or unfamiliar, but that it was directly at odds with what the public had been told was the case,” says Steven Aftergood, director of the Federation of American Scientists’ Project on Government Secrecy. “In other words, it meant we had been misled.” [/QUOTE]
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