NEWSMAX: Former President George W. Bush first authorized the National Security Agency’s phone and Internet surveillance programs just after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, National Intelligence Director James Clapper said Saturday as part of declassified disclosures about the programs’ beginnings…
The [Electronic Frontier Foundation] claims in its suit that the program, which continued under the Obama administration, conducts surveillance on “practically every American who uses the phone system or the Internet,” but Clapper and Fleisch denied those claims…
Clapper’s disclosures are in direct conflict with testimony he gave Congress during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing in March, in which he denied that the NSA collected any “type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans.”… (more)
