28.09.2013 - 07:36 [ Techdirt ]

Dianne Feinstein Accidentally Confirms That NSA Tapped The Internet Backbone

during Thursday‘s Senate Intelligence Committee hearing, Dianne Feinstein more or less admitted that they get emails via „upstream“ collection methods. As you can see in the following clip, Feinstein interrupts a discussion to read a prepared „rebuttal“ to a point being made, and in doing so clearly says that the NSA can get emails via upstream collections: