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The National Security Agency has refused to provide details on its clandestine domestic spying program, as requested by two prominent Senators, suggesting that to do so would violate the privacy of Americans.

Last month Senators Ron Wyden and Mark Udall of the intelligence oversight committee once again asked the NSA to divulge how many innocent Americans have had their communications monitored under the expanded Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, counterterrorism powers put into place four years ago.

The expansion of powers in 2008 eliminated the need for the NSA to have probable cause to intercept any American’s phone calls, text messages or emails.

Now Wired Magazine blog DangerRoom has acquired a letter (PDF) from the Inspector General of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which notes that “NSA leadership agreed that an IG review of the sort suggested would further violate the privacy of U.S. persons.”

The letter, written by I. Charles McCullough, also claims that the NSA, which has as many employees as the FBI and the CIA combined, does not have the man power to collate and reveal such details, and that to attempt to do so would jeopardize the program.

“I defer to [the NSA inspector general’s] conclusion that obtaining such an estimate was beyond the capacity of his office and dedicating sufficient additional resources would likely impede the NSA’s mission,” McCullough wrote.

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Senator Wyden responded with a statement Monday, noting “All that Senator Udall and I are asking for is a ballpark estimate of how many Americans have been monitored under this law, and it is disappointing that the Inspectors General cannot provide it.”

“If no one will even estimate how many Americans have had their communications collected under this law then it is all the more important that Congress act to close the ‘back door searches’ loophole, to keep the government from searching for Americans’ phone calls and emails without a warrant,” Wyden added.

Describing the NSA’s response as “disappointing and unsatisfactory,” Legal secrecy expert Steve Aftergood, of the Federation of American Scientists, believes it is unacceptable for any intelligence agency to refuse to address such an “entirely legitimate oversight question.”

“If the FISA Amendments Act is not susceptible to oversight in this way,” Aftergood said, “it should be repealed, not renewed.”

Last year, the NSA tacitly admitted that it has an active domestic spying program when the general counsel testified to a Senate hearing, overseen by Wyden and Udall, that he believes the agency has the authority to track Americans via cell phones.

“There are certain circumstances where that authority may exist,” said Matthew Olsen the Director of The National Counterterrorism Center.

Wyden and Udall have been pressing the NSA for some time to reveal whether or not the agency is collecting sensitive data on Americans such as cell site data, which would allow for tracking the location of anyone using a cell phone in the US.

Along with Congressman Jason Chaffetz (R., Utah), Wyden introduced a joint bill last year that would force any government agency to secure a search warrant and show probable cause before tracking the location of any American.

Wyden has consistently expressed concern that the law relating to surveillance is unclear, and is being “secretly interpreted by the executive branch.”

Last week, Wyden blocked the Senate from a unanimous consent vote on a bill that would extend the FISA for a further five years. He was the only Senator to take action against the proposal, which was secretly approved for a floor vote last month, and would have otherwise passed through a virtually empty Senate chamber without objection.

In his statement, Wyden said he objects to the extension of the law because it does not contain protections against warrantless “back door” searches of Americans.

“I believe that there should be clear rules prohibiting the government from searching through these communications in an effort to find the phone calls or emails of a particular American, unless the government has obtained a warrant or emergency authorization permitting surveillance of that American,” he said.

As a candidate for president in 2008, Barack Obama promised to revisit and revise the rules of FISA to protect Americans’ rights, after he had voted for the bill as a Senator. However, as president, Obama has continued where president Bush left off in calling for extending the legislation and even actively preventing any judicial oversight of the wiretapping program.

The FISA provision, introduced in 2008, was merely a confirmation of activity that government spy agencies, including the NSA, have been engaging in for years.

The ACLU recently released an infographic (below) detailing how the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping program has grown in gargantuan proportions and now intercepts 1.7 billion US electronic communications every single day. Those communications will soon all be funneled through the top secret $2 billion spy center in the Utah desert, which the NSA has refused to provide Congress with details of.

The surveillance dragnet just got a hell of a lot bigger, and rest assured that while the government says its official targets are “terrorists,” snoops are using these powers to go after Americans exercising their constitutional rights.

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Steve Watson is the London based writer and editor for Alex Jones’ Infowars.net, and Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham in England.

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18 Responses to “NSA Refuses To Admit To Spying On Americans”

1. the Nsa are exempt from all laws unless the law includes the Nsa, look it up people …

   flaming_red_pill Reply:
   June 19th, 2012 at 8:43 am

   NSA: we did the math and determined that people prefer being raped while unconscious.

   abouttime Reply:
   June 19th, 2012 at 11:00 am

   Let ‘em intercept my shit all day long. They need some humor.

   jchance Reply:
   June 19th, 2012 at 11:53 am

   Master that is total bullshit. First off, if that was the case, then Echelon would never have had to happen. What was Echelon you might be asking. It was a program the NSA operated jointly with Australian and British intelligence agencies that allowed for each nation to get around the law where it has prohibited them from spying domestically on their citizens. What they did to get around the law was that each country monitored another’s domestic communications. For example the US monitored UK citizens, the UK monitored Australia’s, and Australia monitored the US’s.

   captain obvious Reply:
   June 19th, 2012 at 12:42 pm

   BUT.. it was all govt approved, so they ARE liable-guilty.
   it is a deviate conspiracy loophole exploitation I resent.

   Master Reply:
   June 19th, 2012 at 2:06 pm

   The National Security Act of 1947

   The National Security Act of 1947 was an Act of Congress signed by President Truman on 26 July 1947, and realigned and reorganized the U.S. Armed Forces, foreign policy, and Intelligence Community apparatus in the aftermath of World War II. The majority of the provisions of the Act took effect on September 18, 1947, the day after the Senate confirmed James Forrestal as the first Secretary of Defense. His power was extremely limited and it was difficult for him to exercise the authority to make his office effective. This was later changed in the amendment to the act in 1949, creating what was to be the Department of Defense.

2. I don’t have a cell phone, and never have, and we use a land line. Sounds out of touch doesn’t it, but don’t like radiation from cell phones, and wanted land line in case of emergencies, as 911 can find you even if you just call the number and leave the phone off the hook. Be that as it may be, I’m surprised Wyden is taking up with this, since he’s a classic liberal. He’s been hanging around Rand Paul lately, as they’re co-sponsoring a bill. Maybe Rand is getting to him. I know Rand betrayed his Dad, but why is the reason we can’t judge him completely on this problem. People in Virginia predominantly wanted Ron Paul for President. We know a woman who said Virginians voted Ron Paul after Santorum split the race. Ron Paul still has a fighting chance if the convention gets into a brokered convention.

3. Excellent graphic by the ACLU – surprised actually…. Look at it this way folks : the deliverable of this data acquisition and mining effort is exactly the same thing Santa Claus does during the course of the year find out who is naughty and nice. If you’re nice, then you will comply with the vaccination regime, liberate your treasure, and follow the leader to the dark valley where all the elephants go. If you’re naughty, you are an enemy of the State, a dissident, and a threat – when the big roundup is rolled out, NSA must know the methodology they must employ to eliminate you – your location, your habits, and your weakness – it’s like what all predators do. You decide whether you are the hunted, or the HUNTER…..

4. Oh boy! Another PP safari into adolescence! I love this sentence: Senators “asked the NSA to divulge how many innocent Americans have had their communications monitored” – the word “innocent” is so cute. Hey, Steve Watson, how do you know the relative innocence of anybody? Oh, that’s right, you talk to God.

   Gee, what if the NSA answered the question with an unequivocal, “Seventeen. That’s right, Senator Asshat, our internal audit has determined that we monitored 17 innocent Americans.” How are you, oh wondrous Steve Watson, master of International Relations, going to know if that figure is true or not?

   “Well, Mr. NSAtool, let me rephrase the question – how many stupid Americans have you monitored?”

   “Oh, well Senator, I don’t know the exact figure on that, but we’re talking well into the hundreds of millions. Now, of that I can assure you. But, we have had to resort to the use of speech recognition software to do the actual monitoring. The problem seemed to be that our human monitors were dying of boredom. Yes, Senator, overall it appears that the average American has no life whatsoever and even that which might begin to resemble some sort of meaningful existence turns out to be no more exciting than watching moss grow on rocks. In fact, we have found that threatening inmates of Guantanamo with having to listen to average American cellphone traffic works much better than water-boarding to get the prisoners to tell us what we want to know.”

   “Oh, well Mr. NSAtool, that’s different. As long as you aren’t monitoring our bribe taking or graft trolling, well sir, keep up the damn fine work.”

   InTheFire Reply:
   June 19th, 2012 at 4:08 pm

   Innocent = everyone that has not been found guilty by a group of peers in a court of law.

5. spying, surveillance, espionage, reconnaisance..
   are all terms for and tactics of warfare, is what they are doing.

   treasonous economic sabotage and financial terrorism HAS been done,
   counterfeitting to devalue a nations currency is also a tactic of warfare.

   they are spying because they are afraid of retribution for their crimes.
   at whim they declare us “enemy combatants” or “low-level terrorists”.
   guilty until proven innocent slave.. is unAmerican activity.

   so is poisoning the air-food-water-medicine for corporate profits.
   this marriage of government and corporate, IS FASCIST by definition.
   something hitler was stomped into the dirt for.

6. When everything you do is secret, how do you know they’re even working for us. Ya, I just robbed a bank and killed a couple people, it’s secret. OK, I’ll investigate myself and the results of my investigation will be secret.
   Could mafia scum criminals think up a better scam than that. No, thats why they run it.

7. They can’t admit it because then Congress could do something about it. And people could file FOIA requests to see the data, and challenge this escalating illegality in court. Obviously, they can’t have that.

   jchance Reply:
   June 19th, 2012 at 11:55 am

   You are so very right. To quantify it would set up the possibility of that happening.

8. The problem is nobody talks about the real problem.. Jews

   Who do you think controls the media. Hollywood, much of our government and why we support Israel for bs reasons? Oh because they our ally in the Mid East? The same Mid East that doesn’t matter except for oil and Israeli abuse against Palestinians? Maybe the same Jews who switched the airliners used on 9.11 to remote control and the first to leave their offices and sing and dance with lighters? Yes those Jews.

   Wake the fuck up.

   I respect Infowars, PP and AJ 100% but no matter what this is left out.

   dncholas Reply:
   June 19th, 2012 at 11:58 am

   Want to know about Jews.. look up the Bolshevik Revolution 1917 in Russia.

   Look up Auschwitz II Stalin controlled and the fake smoke stack and walls taken down to look like a gas chamber and how they created the 6 million killed Holocaust

   Until you wake up and be honest nothing else matters

9. What’s the reasoning ? Agenda 21 is stepping up the heat, don’t be fooled.

10. They’ve been doing this since at least the mid 70′s, probably way before that.
    So what? let em listen, you aint gonna stop em. Just throw out a bunch of fodder
    let em sift through it and find nothing.

    even gubberment pukes need something to do!

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