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BelgianMadCow

(5,379 posts)
Sat Jan 18, 2014, 06:34 PM Jan 2014

We need oversight to stop NSA cheating – former intel analyst

The NSA needs oversight to ensure the NSA adheres to the reforms announced by President Obama, a former analyst has said. The US president curtailed the NSA’s mass gathering of metadata which had been branded as “unconstitutional” on Friday.

Fresh off the back of Obama’s announcement the NSA would have to obtain court permission to access the NSA’s treasure trove of metadata, whistleblower Kirk Wiebe gave his reaction to the proposed changes. Although he admitted he was “cautiously optimistic” about the overhaul, he insisted that there was no way of verifying if the NSA implements any changes.

“The NSA has existed for 61 years. It has blatantly violated its charter – the law – for 41 years of that time and has only been relatively clean for about 21 years,” said former NSA senior analyst Kirk Wiebe at a Washington conference. Given the agency’s checkered record, he said there was desperate need for oversight.

Wiebe suggested that the government hire a group of “techies” and give them computers and clearances so they can “delve” into the NSA’s databases and verify that data is not being collected, analyzed and “given to people to whom it should not be.”
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We need oversight to stop NSA cheating – former intel analyst (Original Post) BelgianMadCow Jan 2014 OP
No, the domestic surveillance programs need to be defunded, razed to the ground, woo me with science Jan 2014 #1
Link to whistleblowers' press conference following President's speech. JDPriestly Jan 2014 #2

woo me with science

(32,139 posts)
1. No, the domestic surveillance programs need to be defunded, razed to the ground,
Sat Jan 18, 2014, 06:35 PM
Jan 2014

and all collected information destroyed.

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.



JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)
2. Link to whistleblowers' press conference following President's speech.
Sun Jan 19, 2014, 05:34 AM
Jan 2014
http://new.livestream.com/accuracy/nsa-rebuttal/videos/39824993

Took me a while to find the link so I am posting it on several DU pages. I haven't seen it here.

Please pass this link on, and please listen to all of it if you can. These guys know what they are talking about.
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