Lots of people in Europe are very interested in this Yahoo scan. Feel like Bob Litt told them thus kind of stuff doesn't happen.https://twitter.com/ericgeller/status/790983778437107712 …
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Bollocks. I called PCLOB and said, "this is deliberately misleading language." PCLOB nevertheless adopted it for 702 report.
They don't have to use the same language as the ACLU. If they disclose, they disclose. It's up to us to explain.
.@Timothy_Edgar Please stop being condescending. You have no business caricaturing real analysis on language to cover for the IC.
.@Timothy_Edgar Entire convo started w/my saying ODNI ought to have easy arg to make they're not making. I'm not making the hippie argument.
.@Timothy_Edgar Furthermore, you've simply ignored my very factual comment to PCLOB, dismissed it as presumptively "alarmist." No.
My point is simply that "about" collection was disclosed in 2013. That's my only point. Did not mean to offend.
I wrote abt difficulty of about/upstream distinction here. https://www.emptywheel.net/2016/10/06/yahoo-scan-facilities-fisa/ …
It's this tweet that was out of line. Again, I started complaining abt misleading lang in 2014.https://twitter.com/Timothy_Edgar/status/791002496596635649 …
But I will say language used in US is simply misleading. In Europe it fell far short of even that.
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