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In particular I was shaking my head at Jamil quoting the number of manual queries run against the NSA’s original bulk telephony database, omitting the much larger number of queries run by automated tools in violation of the rules imposed by the FISC. reuters.com/article/us-usa…
Glad @dnvolz reminded me; a little annoyed I didn’t circle back to that in my own testimony, but an itemized fact check would’ve burned all my time.
The FISC imposed very strict rules! NSA only queried the database like 300 times a year! When they were following the rules. The other 17,835 queries don’t count.
I’m sure he meant to mention the second number; probably just slipped his mind.
