CNET Story Alleging NSA Can Listen To Phone Calls w/o Warrant Faces Skepticism - BIG UPDATE

[DevonRex]

50. And cnet very carefully didn't report Mueller's response. And misquoted Feinstein.

Curious, that.

It also puts something in quotes that Feinstein did not say to reporters - not to give that meaning. Here is what she actually said.

"To search the database, you have to have reasonable, articulable cause to believe that that individual is connected to a terrorist group,” Feinstein told reporters. “Then you can query the numbers. There is no content. You have the name, and the number called, whether it’s one number or two numbers. That’s all you have… if you want to collect content, then you get a court order.”
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Asked to confirm that intelligence officials do not need a court order for the query of the number itself, Feinstein said, “that’s my understanding.”
So even though the NSA or other intelligence agencies must return to the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to get authorization to eavesdrop on a call, they do not need to ask the court to search the “metadata” that NSA collects from telecom providers. Officials must only conclude for themselves that they have a “reasonable, articulable” suspicion about someone and then they may query their database."

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/dianne-feinstein-nsa-92760.html#ixzz2WL4E0q00
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Cnet's reporting is some of the worst I've seen. It appears to be deliberate. But didn't anyone else here wonder why nobody else reported on it? Didn't anyone else wonder why the hell they would report this without talking directly to Nadler? Instead they just said he was unavailable for comment.