http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=F9gtV-rSyEc&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DF9gtV-rSyEc

Nader appears to backtrack on his statements made to Mueller during the Congressional hearing. However, he does not say that he must have misunderstood what he claimed that he heard in the confidential briefing, but only that he is glad that the administration cleared this up for him. Clapper has already lied to Congress before, so why should anyone trust anything that he is saying.

My post was made after the first CNet article, which was later updated with the administration’s spin. It will be interesting to see how this all shakes out. I think the cat is about out of the bag.

Two of the four collection programs, one each for telephony and the Internet, process trillions of “metadata” records for storage and analysis in systems called MAINWAY and MARINA, respectively. Metadata includes highly revealing information about the times, places, devices and participants in electronic communication, but not its contents. The bulk collection of telephone call records from Verizon Business Services, disclosed this month by the British newspaper the Guardian, is one source of raw intelligence for MAINWAY.

The other two types of collection, which operate on a much smaller scale, are aimed at content. One of them intercepts telephone calls and routes the spoken words to a system called ­NUCLEON.

For Internet content, the most important source collection is the PRISM project reported on June 6 by The Washington Post and the Guardian. It draws from data held by Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and other Silicon Valley giants, collectively the richest depositories of personal information in history.

I’m inferring that, at least in theory, it’s only foreign calls/e-mails whose content is being accessed. In theory.

James Owens, a spokesman for Nadler, provided a statement on Sunday morning, a day after this article was published, saying: “I am pleased that the administration has reiterated that, as I have always believed, the NSA cannot listen to the content of Americans’ phone calls without a specific warrant.” Owens said he couldn’t comment on what assurances from the Obama administration Nadler was referring to, and said Nadler was unavailable for an interview. (CNET had contacted Nadler for comment on Friday.)

Note the word “Americans.”