[–] daskapitalist [S] 0 points 7 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago
I've had this letter sitting around for awhile and figured that Voat would get a kick out of it if I scanned it.
TLDR: "We can neither confirm nor deny we're unconstitutionally spying on you, because if we confirmed it you could sue us for Fourth Amendment violations, and if we denied it no one would believe us, so as a matter of National Security, go blow a goat."
[–] GIF-lLL-S0NG ago (edited ago)
the laws have frequently been changed and reinterpreted, from the former director himself "nothing the NSA does is unconstitutional". However, executive orders do not trump the Constitution and its "unalienable liberties" FOIA only protect the content of their illegal activities not the illegal procedures of spying killing and goat sacrifices by themselves.
[–] 6214102? 2 points -2 points 0 points (+0|-2) ago
Well, I don't know what you had expected. This is what intelligence agencies do.