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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Facts should no longer be admitted or confirmed, which is why they are facts. It would have been different if, for example, some disinformation campaigns had been launched afterwards in an attempt to conceal the facts. So it was accepted, but attempts were made to shift the focus onto the "traitors to the country"... with success... sad that Americans who care about Americans are being hunted by Americans globally.

They also admitted it much earlier, but without the words that actions conveyed instead.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's not the meaning of the word.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

It has been confirmed and proven by the facts - nothing more needs to be admitted. Apart from that... James Clapper has already been forgotten. Who made fun of it and what else was going on.... Nothing more had to be admitted.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But they did. So you can stop trying to justify you not understanding the difference in what those words mean.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/10/nsa-spying-scandal-what-we-have-learned

"President Barack Obama described the programmes as vital to keeping Americans safe and said the US was "going to have to make some choices between balancing privacy and security to protect against terror". The NSA access was enabled by changes to US surveillance law introduced under President George Bush and renewed under Obama in December 2012."

We just forget anything right?