“There Is No Database”
I Con the Record has released the transcript for the Yahoo hearing before the FISA Court of Review.
I’ll come back to the substance of it, but I did want to point to the lie that underscores this entire case.
On page 41, Acting Solicitor General Gregory Garre claims there is no database of incidentally collected information.
That’s of course false — the incidentally collected information is kept right along with the targeted information.
The FISCR used this in its ruling Protect America Act was constitutional.
Funny how that works…
I wonder what would happen if they told the truth for once.
That is the basic problem with a non-adversarial process. They don’t have to.
What make this a truthful statement is there is no such thing as incidentally collected material. They deliberately “collect it all”.