2 Senators Say the NSA Is Still Feeding Us False Information
"How can a democratic republic function when the bureaucrats are constantly misleading the people?"
To sum up, America, the privacy protections you’re afforded are much weaker than you’re being led to believe, and when it comes to destroying communications that concern U.S. citizens, the NSA is either lying to the Senate about its ability to flag those communications, or else misleading the public about how reliably the communications of American citizens are destroyed.
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