{"id":187092,"date":"2013-06-20T20:26:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T01:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/06\/20\/obama-is-lying-about-the-prevented-terror-attacks-and-other-nsa-scandal-stuff\/"},"modified":"2013-06-20T20:26:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T01:26:00","slug":"obama-is-lying-about-the-prevented-terror-attacks-and-other-nsa-scandal-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/06\/20\/obama-is-lying-about-the-prevented-terror-attacks-and-other-nsa-scandal-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Is Lying About the Prevented Terror Attacks, and Other NSA Scandal Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"

A review of the claims shows that either ordinary law enforcement actions uncovered the planned attacks, or that there never was a planned attack, there never was an attack<\/a>:<\/p>\n

This suspect, in turn, was in contact with an individual in the United States<\/a> named Khalid Ouazzani. Thus warned, the FBI<\/a> investigated Mr. Ouazzani through traditional law enforcement methods, and discovered a burgeoning plot to bomb the NYSE.<\/span>

<\/span> \u201cOuazzani had been providing information and support to this plot,\u201d FBI Deputy Director Sean Joyce told lawmakers.<\/span>
However, Mr. Ouazzani pleaded guilty to providing material support \u2013 in his case, money \u2013 to Al Qaeda, not to terror planning. His May 2010 plea agreement makes no mention of anything related to the New York Stock Exchange, or any bomb plot, notes David Kravets in Wired<\/a> magazine.<\/span>

<\/span> Plus, Ouazzani\u2019s defense attorney said Tuesday the stock market allegation was news to him.<\/span>

<\/span> \u201cKhalid Ouazzani was not involved in any plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange,\u201d attorney Robin Fowler told Wired.<\/span>

<\/span> As to the New York subway plot, it was discovered not by analysis of vast amounts of Internet data of foreign users, but rather by old-fashioned police work, according to The Guardian<\/a>, the British newspaper that first published a secret NSA document showing the agency collected phone metadata from Verizon Business Services.<\/span>
A British intelligence investigation into a suspected terrorist cell in England\u2019s northwest first turned up a crucial e-mail address of a Pakistani extremist, write The Guardian\u2019s Ed Pilkington and Nicholas Watt. They passed this address to the US.<\/span>

<\/span> Surveillance of this one address led the US to Najibullah Zazi<\/a>, an Afghan-American living in Colorado who had asked the Pakistani extremist for explosives recipes. FBI agents followed Mr. Zazi as he traveled to New York. Search warrants turned up bomb components, and in 2010 Zazi confessed to a plot to bomb the city\u2019s subway system with backpacks.<\/span><\/p>\n

The NSA\u2019s sweeping data interception capability \u201cplayed a relatively minor role\u201d in breaking this case, write Mr. Pilkington and Mr. Watt.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And the Guardian<\/i> now hsa published the secret standards used by the NSA<\/a>, and it appears we have another lie, because the standards do allow for emails to be read and phone calls to be listened to:(see here<\/a> and here<\/a> for the docs)<\/p>\n

The Guardian is publishing in full two documents submitted to the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (known as the Fisa court), signed by Attorney General Eric Holder and stamped 29 July 2009. They detail the procedures the NSA is required to follow to target “non-US persons” under its foreign intelligence powers and what the agency does to minimize data collected on US citizens and residents in the course of that surveillance.<\/span>

<\/span>The documents show that even under authorities governing the collection of foreign intelligence from foreign targets, US communications can still be collected, retained and used. <\/span>

<\/span>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span>
The top secret documents published today detail the circumstances in which data collected on US persons under the foreign intelligence authority must be destroyed, extensive steps analysts must take to try to check targets are outside the US, and reveals how US call records are used to help remove US citizens and residents from data collection.<\/span>

<\/span>However, alongside those provisions, the Fisa court-approved policies allow the NSA to:<\/span><\/p>\n