Friday, June 7, 2013

Shorter Bosses of Google and Facebook: Either They Were Given the "Mushroom Treatment" or They are Lying

The bosses of both Google and Facebook deny that the NSA has been tapped into their servers. Even though the existence of the PRISM program was acknowledged by the President.

So either those guys knew about it and they are now furiously lying, knowing full well that the NSA will never officially confirm the matter, or they were deliberately kept in the dark by their staffies, who saw no reason to bring this matter to their bosses' attention.

I think I'm going to go with "Lying CEOs".
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2 comments:

  1. hans6/07/2013 8:21 PM

    From Mike Arrington
    "the companies are carefully drafting responses so that they aren’t technically lying.
    "How else could these companies be supplying the data? Easy, by simply sending a copy of all data to the NSA. Verizon’s court order, for example, required that they send call data daily.
    "The companies sending the data have both immunity from prosecution and are also prohibited from disclosing that the NSA has requested or received the data.
    http://uncrunched.com/2013/06/06/triangulating-on-truth-the-totalitarian-state/

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  2. The New York Crank6/07/2013 9:33 PM

    To Mike's point: the companies aren't lying because a lie is a truth when it's told for governmental purposes. Nixon established that principle when he declared that "if the President does it, it isn't a crime."

    Very crankily yours,
    The New York Crank

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