re: #69 gunnison

They certainly have lied to the congressional committee when they said they don’t have the ability to know how many phone metadata grabs they do on phone calls within the US.

They do know, and with precision, it turns out, and they said they didn’t have that capability.

So yeah, they could be lying like they did then, and like they have done before. COINTELPRO ring any bells with you at all?
Come on, it’s not like they don’t have form in this area for pete’s sake.

And how does metadata translate into the allegations that Snowden has made, such as being able to access anybody’s communications with so little as an email address? Being able to wiretap the president if he so chose to do so?