Wired interviewed with Clapper

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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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.”
>
>
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> Dave Maass
> Investigative Researcher
> Electronic Frontier Foundation
> 415-436-9333 x 151
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