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Privacy Board Knows Number of Americans Targetted by NSA but Won't Share the 411

What a farce.

Ryan Singel writes again over on 27B Stroke 6:

Lisa Graves, the Deputy Director of the Center for National Security Studies, had two simple questions for the White House Privacy and Civil Liberties Board: Did they know how many Americans had been eavesdropped on by the warrantless wiretapping program and if so, how many?

Alan Raul, the panel's vice chairman, acknowledged in a roundabout way that the members had gotten such data, but said that the data were too sensitive to release. Graves then asked if the Board had pushed to have that data made public, as are the Justice Department is required to do with raw numbers of typical spy wiretaps.

Raul declined to say if the board had suggested that.

posted by Fergie @ 12/05/2006 01:58:00 PM