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| Subject: Lying administrations: Before disclosures, Bush and Obama long denied widespread NSA data trawling Sat Jun 08, 2013 4:44 am | |
| For years, top officials of the Bush and Obama administrations dismissed fears about secret government data-mining by reassuring Congress that there were no secret nets trawling for Americans' phone and Internet records.
"We do not vacuum up the contents of communications under the president's program and then use some sort of magic after the intercept to determine which of those we want to listen to, deal with or report on," then-CIA Director Michael Hayden told a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in July 2006.
But on Friday, President Barack Obama himself acknowledged the existence of such programs even as he gave the government's standard rationale to ease fears that Americans' privacy rights are being violated.
More: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/06/08/before-disclosures-bush-and-obama-administrations-long-denied-widespread-nsa/ |
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