US Senate intelligence committee chairwoman Dianne Feinstein shakes hands with director of national intelligence James Clapper. Photograph: Jason Reed/Reuters
Feinstein Appears To Confirm NSA Gathering Cellphone Locations Despite Public Denials -- McClatchy News
WASHINGTON — Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee and a staunch defender of the National Security Agency’s data collection programs, appeared Wednesday to confirm that the NSA is gathering information on where Americans are when they use their cellphones – something NSA officials repeatedly have denied in public.
The apparent confirmation, which may have been inadvertent, came during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the NSA program. Feinstein, D-Calif., is also a member of that committee.
“I’ve listened to this program being described as a surveillance program. It is not,” Feinstein said. “There is no content collected by the NSA. There are bits of data – location, telephone numbers – that can be queried when there is reasonable and articulable suspicion.”
Feinstein’s office did not respond to a request for clarification.
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Update: Sen. Feinstein Claims The NSA Does Collect Phone Call Location Information, Contradicting The NSA -- Tech Crunch
My Comment: As I have mentioned on more than one occasion .... there has been so many lies and misleading statements from the White House/Congress/NSA/the intelligence community/etc.. on surveillance programs that I now no longer have any confidence in what they are saying is the truth.
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