The National Security Agency has refused to release details of a secret presidential directive which experts believe could allow the military and intelligence agencies to operate on the networks of private companies, such as Google and Facebook.
As we reported last week, an article in the Washington Post, cited several US officials saying that Obama signed off on the secret cybersecurity order, believed to widely expand NSA’s spying authorities, in mid-October.
“The new directive is the most extensive White House effort to date to wrestle with what constitutes an “offensive” and a “defensive” action in the rapidly evolving world of cyberwar and cyberterrorism.” the report states.
In response to the move, lawyers with the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request (PDF) demanding that the Obama administration make public the text of the directive.
The NSA responded to the FOIA request this week with a statement arguing that it does not have to release the document because it is a confidential presidential communication and it is classified.
Read More at infowars.com . By Steve Watson.
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If this unqualified, lying, illegal, foreign national, Muslim POTUS does not want us to see something we will not see it !
And if they don’t want us to know, we won’t know. We have no idea how much we don’t know.
But we seem to forget. They seem to leave God out of everything, the one who knows all. His word says… in Obadiah 4 …Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence(from there) will I bring thee down, saith the Lord. In other words self exaltation the Lord says He will bring you down. No one exalts them self above God. There is only One God. Believe that God does what He says …and says what He means.