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Wired interviewed with Clapper
From: "Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 16:12:55 -0500
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From: Dave Maass <dm () eff org> Date: November 17, 2016 at 2:52:34 PM EST To: "nsa-spying () mail eff org" <nsa-spying () mail eff org> Subject: [Nsa-spying] Wired interviewed with Clapper https://www.wired.com/2016/11/james-clapper-us-intelligence/ Highlight: Clapper believes that in the wake of the September 11 attacks, the public and Congress would have given the nation’s spies almost anything they requested. “We could’ve gotten legislation to drive a truck through,” Clapper says. “I’m convinced that if we’d explained the program and the need, Prism would have been no more controversial than the FBI storing millions of fingerprints.” In fact, he says, while the legislative changes after Snowden’s revelations made the process slower for the NSA, it greatly boosted the total amount of data the agency could legally access. “Instead of the NSA storing the data, we go to the companies and ask them for it,” he says. “It actually gave us broader access across a broader range of providers than the original programs. If people think their civil liberties and privacy are going to be better protected by the providers, OK.” -- Dave Maass Investigative Researcher Electronic Frontier Foundation 415-436-9333 x 151 dm () eff org _______________________________________________ Nsa-spying mailing list Nsa-spying () eff org https://mail.eff.org/mailman/listinfo/nsa-spying
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