Monday, July 1, 2013

Is There Any Allie The U.S. Didn't Spy On?

Japan envoys among U.S. ‘spy targets’

Tokyo to seek confirmation but denies also eavesdropping


Tokyo will “strongly demand” an explanation from Washington about reported allegations that Japanese diplomats in the U.S. were among 38 “targets” of American spying activities, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Monday.
Japan will lodge an inquiry through diplomatic channels with the U.S. about Sunday’s report by The Guardian, which quoted what it says is a top-secret U.S. National Security Agency document leaked by fugitive ex-NSA and ex-CIA contractor Edward Snowden.

As these allegations continue to be revealed how can the U.S. continue to act like nothing has happened.   Is's as though (the government) believes that they impunity to do whatever they like


Americas inability to keep its story straight:

NSA quietly removed from its Web site a fact sheet about its collection activities because it contained inaccuracies discovered by lawmakers.
President Obama, in a television interview, asserted that oversight of the surveillance programs was “transparent” because of the involvement of a special court, even though that court’s sessions and decisions are sealed from the public.

Backtracking from his first explanation that in sworn congressional testimony he gave "the least untruthful answer" possible, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper came up with another reason for being the "least untruthful" he could be under oath:
Acknowledging the “heated controversy” over his remark, Clapper sent a letter to the Senate Intelligence Committee on June 21 saying that he had misunderstood the question he had been asked.
“I have thought long and hard to re-create what went through my mind at the time,” Clapper said in the previously undisclosed letter. “My response was clearly erroneous — for which I apologize.”
“What I can say unequivocally is that if you are a U.S. person, the NSA cannot listen to your telephone calls and the NSA cannot target your e-mails,” Obama said in his June 17 interview on PBS’s “Charlie Rose Show.”
But even if it is not allowed to target U.S. citizens, the NSA has significant latitude to collect and keep the contents of e-mails and other communications of U.S. citizens that are swept up as part of the agency’s court-approved monitoring of a target overseas.

 







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