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→James Clapper
===James Clapper===
===James Clapper===
On March 12, 2013 in public testimony before the Senate Intelligence Oversight Committee [[Democrat]]ic Sen. [[Ron Wyden]] asked Obama Director of National Intelligence ([[DNI]]) James Clapper, "Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions, or hundreds of millions, of Americans?" Clapper replied, “No sir. Not wittingly."<ref>https://youtu.be/nsmo0hUWJ08</ref> One month later the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court secretly approved the latest FBI request to continue obtaining daily telephone records of millions of [[Verizon]] customers.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/jun/06/verizon-telephone-data-court-order</ref> The judge ordered Verizon to turn over the information to the National Security Agency (NSA). This directly contradicted Clapper’s testimony to Congress.
On March 12, 2013 in public testimony before the Senate Intelligence Oversight Committee [[Democrat]]ic Sen. [[Ron Wyden]] asked Obama Director of National Intelligence ([[DNI]]) James Clapper, "Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions, or hundreds of millions, of Americans?" Clapper replied, “No sir. Not wittingly."<ref>https://youtu.be/nsmo0hUWJ08</ref> One month later the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court secretly approved the latest FBI request to continue obtaining daily telephone records of millions of [[Verizon]] customers.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/jun/06/verizon-telephone-data-court-order</ref> The judge ordered Verizon to turn over the information to the National Security Agency (NSA).<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/nsa-phone-records-verizon-court-order</ref> This directly contradicted Clapper’s sworn testimony to Congress.
Asked at a hearing if the Justice Dept. spies on members of Congress, Attn. Gen. Holder refuses to answer.<ref>http://www.mediaite.com/tv/asked-if-justice-department-is-spying-on-congress-holder-refuses-to-answer/</ref>
*An 18-page memo shows Obama ordering intelligence officials to draw up a list of overseas targets for cyberattacks.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/jun/07/obama-cyber-directive-full-text</ref>
*Obama defends NSA wiretapping.<ref>https://usnews.newsvine.com/_news/2013/06/07/18824941-obama-nobody-is-listening-to-your-telephone-calls?lite</ref>
*The ''Guardian'' story, soon to be known as the ''Snowden leaks'', is more evidence Obama Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper misled Congress and public about the true nature and extent of domestic intelligence gathering in his 12 March sworn testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee.
*'''8 June.''' Documents reveal the NSA's Boundless Informant program, which gives the agency near real-time ability to understand how much intelligence coverage there is on certain areas through use of a "heat map."<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/08/nsa-boundless-informant-global-datamining</ref>
*'''9 June.''' [[Edward Snowden]] steps forward as source of NSA leaks published in ''The Guardian''.<ref name="theguardian.com">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/09/nsa-secret-surveillance-lawmakers-live</ref> Introducing himself Snowden says,<ref>https://youtu.be/9u5ecSR_rag</ref>
{{Quotebox|“'''I, sitting at my desk, certainly had the authorities to wiretap anyone''', from you or your accountant, to a federal judge, to '''even the president''' if I had a personal e-mail.<br><br>
It’s getting to the point you don’t have to have done anything wrong. You simply have to eventually fall under suspicion from somebody, even by a wrong call, and then they can use the system to go back in time and scrutinize every decision you have ever made.”}}
:Training materials provided by Snowden for XKeyscore propgram detail how analysts can use it and other systems to mine enormous NSA databases by filling in a simple on-screen form giving only a broad justification for the search. The request is not reviewed by a court or any NSA personnel before it is processed. The program covers "nearly everything a typical user does on the internet", including the content of emails, websites visited and searches, as well as their metadata. Under US law, the NSA is required to obtain an individualized [[FISA]] warrant only if the target of their surveillance is a 'US person', though no such warrant is required for intercepting the communications of Americans with foreign targets. But '''XKeyscore provides''' the technological capability, if not '''the legal authority, to target even US persons''' for extensive electronic surveillance '''without a warrant provided''' that some identifying information, such as '''their email or IP address, is known.'''
*'''10 June.''' ''Wall Street Journal'' reports FISA Court has rejected only 11 of 33,900 warrant requests in the 33 years the law has been in existence.<ref>https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324904004578535670310514616</ref>
*'''12 June.''' IRS suspends use of the BOLO list.
*'''13 June.''' Snowden reveals NSA was hacking computers in Hong Kong and mainland China, few of which were military systems.
*FBI Dir. Robert Mueller tells Congressional committee [[9/11]] hijackers were under NSA surveillance, a fact unknown and unreported by the 9/11 investigating Commission and omitted from the 9/11 Commission Report.<ref>https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2013/6/14/1216187/-Director-Mueller-9-11-Hijackers-were-in-Fact-Under-NSA-Surveillance</ref>
*'''16 June.''' Snowden reveals intelligence sharing on Britain's GCHQ (its intelligence agency) intercepting phone and internet communications of foreign politicians attending two G-20 meetings in London in 2009.
*'''20 June.''' Bonuses paid to two former IRS Commissioners who oversaw the abuse of Tea Partiers, the one who initiated the program and the 'fall guy' who resigned over it, were paid an extra $42,000 and $100,000, respectively.
*Snowden leaks top-secret procedures steps the NSA must take to target and collect data from "non-US persons" and how it must minimize, or mask, data collected on US citizens.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/20/fisa-court-nsa-without-warrant</ref>
*'''21 June.''' Snowden leaks how Britain's GCHQ taps fiber-optic cables to collect and store global email messages, Facebook posts, internet histories, and calls, and then shares the data with the NSA.
*'''27 June.''' CIA responds to Torture Report, attacks Committee; Sen. Mark Udall issues a statement alleging intelligence officials leaked "inaccurate information" critical of the Committee report. Udall states that the CIA and the White House "repeatedly rejected requests to discuss the Committee's report."<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20140627161317/http://www.markudall.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=3536</ref>
*'''June.''' FBI secretly opens a case on Sharyl Attkisson’s computer intrusions under the auspices of 'national security.' FBI contacts CBS without Attkisson’s knowledge, but fails to contact or interview Attkisson. FBI later ignores multiple FOIA request and other documents.
*News of the FBI case involving Attkisson’s computer intrusions is circulated internally to the Justice Dept.’s national cyber security group, and grouped with a set of cases opened on 20 November, shortly after the president's re-election in 2012.<ref name="wyden.senate.gov">https://www.wyden.senate.gov/download/?id=285dc9e7-195a-4467-b0fe-caa857fc4e0d</ref>
===Election interference===
===Election interference===