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Monday, May 15, 2006

Another day, another lie

From the Washington Post:

When he was asked about the National Security Agency's controversial domestic surveillance program last Monday, U.S. intelligence chief John D. Negroponte objected to the question and said the government was "absolutely not" monitoring domestic calls without warrants.

"I wouldn't call it domestic spying," he told reporters. "This is about international terrorism and telephone calls between people thought to be working for international terrorism and people here in the United States."

Three days later, USA Today divulged details of the NSA's effort to log a majority of the telephone calls made within the United States since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks -- amassing the domestic call records of tens of millions of U.S. households and businesses in an attempt to sift them for clues about terrorist threats.

1 Comments:

Blogger ChiTom said...

Sounds like it's past time for Congress at least to get Negroponte and others to testify under oath about statements like these.

Of course they'll claim executive privilege and national security-secrecy, and not tell very much, but we need to get them to stop freely telling these sorts of public lies.

11:02 AM  

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