Obama's National Security Agency has been caught in a few "UNTRUTHS". Just like the Dear Leader Barack, lying to the American people will be done without hesitation or accountability. Deflecting from the issue of illegal bulk spying on the American people and Obama's hypocrisy, the justifications used by the Administration to defend the domestic spying programs are also 'untruths'Obama Campaigns against spying on the American People
Germany backs away from claims NSA program thwarted five attacks
Excerpt from McClatchy:
BERLIN — German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich is backing off his earlier assertion that the Obama administration’s NSA monitoring of Internet accounts had prevented five terror attacks in Germany, raising questions about other claims concerning the value of the massive monitoring programs revealed by NSA leaker Edward Snowden.
Friedrich had made the assertion about the number of attacks that the NSA programs – which scoop up records from cellphone and Internet accounts – had helped to avert after a brief visit to the United States last week. But on Tuesday, he told a German parliamentary panel, “It is relatively difficult to count the number of terror attacks that didn’t occur.” And on Wednesday, he was publically referring to just two foiled attacks, at least one and possibly both of which appeared to have little to do with the NSA’s surveillance programs.
Senator Leahy Asks NSA About Spying Program Successes
NSA Claim of Thwarted NYSE Plot Contradicted by Court Documents
Excerpt from ABC:
Court documents and FBI field reports reviewed by ABC News undercut and contradict the dramatic testimony from senior counter-terrorism officials that the National Security Agency's surveillance programs thwarted an attack by al Qaeda on the New York Stock Exchange.
According to an FBI interview with an imprisoned al Qaeda figure involved in the plot, "there was no further operational planning of that target" after surveillance found the four streets around the exchange building "were blocked off from vehicular traffic."
The FBI document was filed last month in federal court in New York as part of the government sentencing memorandum for one of the alleged plotters, Sabirhan Hasanoff, who is to be sentenced next week.
But the FBI deputy director, Sean Joyce, provided Congress with a different version of events Tuesday as he cited the stock exchange plot as one of more than 50 "terror events" that had been disrupted with the help of the NSA's secret surveillance programs.
Previous Untruthful Statements by the NSA on Domestic Spying
Director of National Intelligence Clapper LIES to Congress
ANDREA MITCHELL:
Senator
Wyden made quite a lot out of your exchange with him last March during
the hearings. Can you explain what you meant when you said that there
was not data collection on millions of Americans?
JAMES CLAPPER:
JAMES CLAPPER:
First--
as I said, I have great respect for Senator Wyden. I thought, though
in retrospect, I was asked-- "When are you going to start-- stop beating
your wife" kind of question, which is meaning not-- answerable
necessarily by a simple yes or no. So I responded in what I thought was
the most truthful, or least untruthful manner by saying no.
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