Senator Bernie Sanders Asks NSA If Agency Is Spying On Congress 363
cold fjord writes with this excerpt from Fox News: "A U.S. senator on Friday pressed the National Security Agency on whether its controversial spying practices extend to monitoring members of Congress. 'Has the NSA spied, or is the NSA currently spying, on members of Congress or other American elected officials?' Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., asked in a letter to NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander released from the senator's office. Sanders, a self-described 'democratic socialist,' defines spying as monitoring the phone calls, emails and internet traffic of elected officials."
Re:oh sure (Score:5, Informative)
Sorry bud but you don't know who Bernie Sanders is if you make a comment like that.
Proof he's not qualified to ask the question. (Score:5, Informative)
He's trying to entrap them (Score:4, Informative)
I assume this is clear- he's trying ot entrap them, as when Wyden forced Clapper to lie. Wyden KNEW the truthful answer to his question already, he was just forcing Clapper to lie before Congress.\
Same thing here, for sure . We can take from this that the NSA spies on Congress. Snowden has a story about it spying on Obama when he was a senator. Maybe a leak is coming about this and the Senators are preparing the ground ...
Re: Let all of them spy.... (Score:5, Informative)
What, no love for the USPS?
Are you not up to date?
The USPS is spying on you.
They photograph and archive the metadata (i.e. envelope info) of every single piece of mail.
Re:Well, uh... (Score:5, Informative)
To be fair to the NSA, if you're looking for a group of people who are looking to destroy the USA, based on the evidence, Congress would be a very good place to start your search.