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[–] IceFoxX@lemm.ee -4 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

It has been confirmed and proven by the facts - nothing more needs to be admitted. Apart from that... James Clapper has already been forgotten. Who made fun of it and what else was going on.... Nothing more had to be admitted.

[–] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

But they did. So you can stop trying to justify you not understanding the difference in what those words mean.

[–] IceFoxX@lemm.ee -3 points 20 hours ago

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/10/nsa-spying-scandal-what-we-have-learned

"President Barack Obama described the programmes as vital to keeping Americans safe and said the US was "going to have to make some choices between balancing privacy and security to protect against terror". The NSA access was enabled by changes to US surveillance law introduced under President George Bush and renewed under Obama in December 2012."

We just forget anything right?