Re: PRISM Update: NYT says WaPo a bit credulous

["Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins () arbor net>]

On Jun 8, 2013, at 10:11 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote:

> Well, ok, they don't actually *say* that, but it's the underlying idea behind their own piece, which says that the 
> listed companies didn't really give NSA quite such unfettered access


There's another potential explanation:

from 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/08/technology/tech-companies-bristling-concede-to-government-surveillance-efforts.html?pagewanted=all>

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'Tech companies might have also denied knowledge of the full scope of cooperation with national security officials 
because employees whose job it is to comply with FISA requests are not allowed to discuss the details even with others 
at the company, and in some cases have national security clearance, according to both a former senior government 
official and a lawyer representing a technology company.'

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