Short version: Eric Holder got to be testifying before the Senate on a day where the big news was that the NSA was having Verizon pull its phone logs and hand them over to the federal government. Mark Kirk had an opportunity to ask questions.
Hi-jinks, as they say, ensued.
For those of you who don’t have video, here’s a rough translation/summary of what Holder and Kirk said: Continue reading Mark Kirk backhands Eric Holder over the executive branch’s spying on Congress.
Remember when the Obama administration had good weeks?
NSA chief, two weeks ago: ‘We’re the only ones not spying on the American people’
The National Security Agency recently asked Verizon to turn over telephone metadata for tens of millions of Americans, the Guardian reported Wednesday, based on a leaked court document that appears to show an NSA request for customer data from April through July.
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Talk about awkward timing.
Continue reading WaPo: Oh, by the way: the NSA lied about not spying on Americans. Oopsie!
