Extent Of NSA's E-Mail Surveillance Renews Concerns In Congress

New York Times:

WASHINGTON -- The National Security Agency is facing renewed scrutiny over the extent of its domestic surveillance program, with critics in Congress saying its recent intercepts of the private telephone calls and e-mail messages of Americans are broader than previously acknowledged, current and former officials said.

Read the whole story: New York Times

Comments

[2garen]

07:45 AM on 06/19/2009

Next question is did the bush wh intercept e-mails from groups, people , or organizations that disagreed with them?Each and every violation needs to be looked at and those responsible need to either lose their job, get fined or both.This needs to be retoractive of course.
HIPPA for Doctors and Nurses how about an equal mandated right to know policy for law enforcement, intelligence etc? A nurse or Doctor that looks at information that is non of their business will be fined or would lose their jobs.

[Know-some-secrets]

06:38 AM on 06/19/2009

Has Hillary has asked for a briefing from the NSA on Bill's private emails? Does she care anymore?

[useyourbrain]

12:48 AM on 06/19/2009

Remember when Clinton was raked over the coals for the FBI's mistake of sending over the wrong files when they were looking to rebuild the files for all permanent WH employees from the Office of Personnel Security that Papy Bush took with him for use in the Bush Library. It was Louis Freeh, the head of the FBI who made the mistake of sending the complete files and not the redacted ones to be reviewed for security clearances.

What do the Republics say about Bush & Co. spying on all Americans, including an ex-Presidents personal emails?

[Know-some-secrets]

06:53 AM on 06/19/2009

Given Bill Clintons selling of influence internationally and interactions with foreign governments, the reasons the NSA did examine his emails, right or wrong, may not have been political, but directly related to national security. Bill Clinton has not shown great judgment in how he conducts he personal life, he has access to highly classified information, and is in the business of selling his knowledge, experinece and influence., for millions.

The private dealings of Bill Clinton with Kazakhstan on behalf of Canadian Frank Giustra involving both URANIUM and international human rights should have raised many naitonal security flags, and evidently did.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/31/us/politics/31donor.html

[wreckdiver]

08:28 AM on 06/19/2009

Evidently, they did not. Did you even read the article before launching into your usual speculation-based, Clint0n attack? It's an article about the NSA surveillance abuses, where C/inton is barely mention. When he is, the author states: "The former analyst added that his instructors had warned against committing any ABUSES, telling his class that another analyst had been investigated because he had IMPROPERLY accessed the personal e-mail of former President Bill Clinton." In short, the accessing of C/inton's emails was NOT "directly related to national security", or it would not have been deemed improper, causing an investigation of the analyst.

But hey, you DID put a "may" in front of it .... just like F0x News.

BTW - Van Natta's attacks on BC? Too funny. He's been shown by MM to have distorted and misleaf numerous times on this very issue, among others.
http://mediamatters.org/research/200811180014
http://mediamatters.org/research/200802040005

[bayviking]

12:36 AM on 06/19/2009

The purpose is to blackmail important politicians in opposing parties.

This is how J Edgar Hoover stayed in power for over forty years.

[Pupadup4oBama]

01:45 AM on 06/19/2009

but look what's happening to THEM....it seems to be coming back - in spades.
Them and their "d1rty little s3cr3ts

[skippypicasso]

11:00 PM on 06/18/2009

Is no one is investigating the White House emails the Bushies "disappeared"?

[rubinoff]

11:39 PM on 06/18/2009

...we told all the time, how free we are, but after reading this thread, ..... does 'anyone' feel, free???
just askin

[rubinoff]

11:40 PM on 06/18/2009

meant...'we're told....

getting sleepy. :)

[skippypicasso]

09:35 AM on 06/19/2009

Good point, no I'm feeling less free daily.

[Amunaka]

11:44 PM on 06/18/2009

Oh ya....supposedly

White House Finds 14 Million 'Missing' E-Mails, DOJ Lawyer Says

Written by Jason Leopold
Thursday, 15 January 2009

A Justice Department attorney told a federal judge Wednesday that the White House found 14 million "missing" e-mails that for nearly two years were the subject of several lawsuits and congressional inquiries and widespread speculation that the documents were destroyed.

Helen Hong, an attorney in the Justice Department's civil division, said the White House spent $10 million to locate the e-mails. She said the e-mails would be transferred to the National Archives and Records Administration, along with 300 million of other documents in accordance with the Presidential Records Act, immediately after President George W. Bush leaves office next Tuesday.

http://www.pubrecord.org/law/628-white-house-finds-14-million-missing-e-mails-doj-lawyer-says.html

[JohnHKennedy]

08:22 PM on 06/17/2009

We must keep the pressure on Obama.

We have to put extreme pressure on President Obama to do the right thing on issues we care about. If our Congress, AG Holder and President Obama do nothing about the well known Federal Anti-Torture Law violations they will do nothing to restrict the NSA.

Torture is a Federal Capital Crime. Always illegal.

If they do nothing about Torture, we are in trouble.

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Join them and call yourself a Patriot

Help keep the pressure on Obama.

[Pupadup4oBama]

01:48 AM on 06/19/2009

Stop putting the pressure on Obama - who is just trying to do his job, and instead put the pressure on the obstructionists who are preventing him from DOING the very job we voted him in for.
Obama is doing right by ALL of us....not everyone will agree with everything, but we certainly don't need to pressure him any more than we already do.
Stop being a backseat driver and let Obama handle this.

[NotStarvingArtist]

01:55 PM on 06/17/2009

The headline is so inflammatory, and for little reason. There's one sentence in the two-page story that metnions Bill Clinton. The story is not about Clinton. The headline was just a hook to catch the unwary and reel us in.

[AnnfromCA]

01:15 PM on 06/17/2009

I don't get this article. How many times do we have to act surprised by the same story? We've know about this for over 2 years.

[YewNeekId]

11:56 AM on 06/17/2009

Obama voted to allow telco's to spy on any and all Americans. Looks like Bill thought he was special

[Whinger]

11:36 AM on 06/17/2009

Unless a citizen is considered a security risk their privacy should not be invaded.

[rubinoff]

11:29 PM on 06/18/2009

so is that why, all comments on this forum is dated and timed???.....Just askin

[Scar1]

11:30 AM on 06/17/2009

Hell they do it to everybody so, sorry Bill it has been being done a long time.

[brandnewstuff]

10:38 AM on 06/17/2009

FVCK THE NSA! I hope Jane Harmann bill kicks their a$$! I am as well pleased with what Judge Sara Sotomayor stated on the wiretapping- as the agencies in concert from - NSA to CIA and other abuses over the last eight years......................................................The fusion of Techonolgy and Constitutional laws for the 21st

[AnnfromCA]

01:17 PM on 06/17/2009

I'm enjoying her myself. If you have some good links to that story, I'd appreciate it.

I'm curious enough to delve into this one a bit deeper.

Anyone who takes on Pelosi gets my curiosity up.

[rollingdivision]

10:24 AM on 06/17/2009

Of course for the last 5 months Obama, who voted for increasing domestic spying, has been in charge of the NSA and their little over collecting problem.

[rubinoff]

11:33 PM on 06/18/2009

Whew!!!...and you mean to tell me, with all of this listening, etc., ...we continue to have all of this crime and d.rugs entering our country.....somebody is asleep at the wheel, Again. :(

[Pupadup4oBama]

01:50 AM on 06/19/2009

wow, a whole 5 months....not like it was...oh, 8 years, or anything like that.

[Grunty1]

10:15 AM on 06/17/2009

The fact that the NSA has been spying on Americans has been obvious to everyone for quite some time now. Except the Dubya sycophants, of course.

[LemonMeringue]

10:07 AM on 06/17/2009

"Spying on the Home Front" - a documentary made for Frontline a few years ago. Every American should see it.

You can find it online (view for free) or at your library.

Every keystroke we type, every word we speak over the telephone, is recorded and archived somewhere. If you become inconvenient to the people in charge in 20 years, they can mine out everything you said and did.

We are no longer free in this country. We have no privacy at all.

[dst1]

11:15 PM on 06/18/2009

Big Brother is watching and listening. So what they'll get us one way or the other.

[rubinoff]

11:25 PM on 06/18/2009

wonder Why????......b.in l-a-d-e-n is Not in anyone's home in our country, at least i don't think.??