NSA surveillance is a complex subject - legally, technically and operationally.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The NSA routinely lies in response to congressional inquiries about the scope of surveillance in America.
The NSA has the greatest surveillance capabilities in American history... The real problem is that they're using these capabilities to make us vulnerable.
The NSA is forbidden to 'target' American citizens, green-card holders or companies for surveillance without an individual warrant from a judge.
There's still a lot of things you can legitimately do to make America safe through electronic surveillance.
Laws and regulations are supposed to restrict the kind of surveillance governments do. In fact, the U.S. government is quite restricted in what kind of surveillance they can do on U.S. citizens. The problem is that 96 percent of the planet is not U.S. citizens.
Once you're in a network, you can do a whole bunch of things to that network. It's just that NSA doesn't have the authority to do that.
The United States, like any great power, is always going to have an intelligence operation, and some electronic surveillance is obligatory in the modern world.
In America, you have the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. You've got drones now being considered for domestic surveillance. You have the National Security Agency building the world's giantest spy center.
What I said was, the NSA does not voyeuristically pore through U.S. citizens' e-mails. I stand by that.
The NSA has different reporting requirements for each branch of government and each of its legal authorities.
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