PRISM Program: Obama Administration Held 22 Briefings For Congress On Key FISA Law

This administration, like the one before it, has gone to great lengths to keep the program, and the extent of the spying on Americans, a secret not just to Americans, but to Congress.

I guarantee you that many, if not most members of Congress never knew about PRISM, nor did they know the breadth of the NSA's, et al's, reach into our private lives.  PRISM isn't listed in the FISA legislation.  What they're talking about "briefing" is section 702, and only in the most general terms.  

I can tell you that from what they've said and what we know of how these intelligence agencies have been "briefing" members over the years.  "Soft peddle" is a kind word for how they misinform members of Congress.  A more accurate description is that they set out to dupe members of Congress.  We even can see DNI director James Clapper LYING, point blank, to a direct question by a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee's question on this subject.  It's breath-taking how these people are operating.  Read these -

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Marcospinelli/edward-snowden-nsa-leak-guardian-whistleblower-nsa-revelations_n_3412245_259897780.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Marcospinelli/prism-program-obama_n_3416973_260112012.html
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