The Washington Post’s story about the NSA’s thousands of FISA violations, or “incidents,” is embarrassing enough to the administration, but the Post has revealed that the White House attempted to swap in its own prepared statement to replace an interview with John DeLong, the NSA’s director of compliance.
https://twitter.com/ByronTau/status/368203418252222466
"Two days later, White House and NSA spokesmen said that none of DeLong’s comments could be quoted on the record" http://t.co/7oQNr65Do2
— Michael Calderone (@mlcalderone) August 16, 2013
White House tried to stop @WashingtonPost from publishing statement from John DeLong, NSA’s director of compliance http://t.co/Q72LN3HFUL
— Anthony DeRosa ? (@Anthony) August 16, 2013
Reporter Barton Gellman says he agreed to let the NSA review the results of his interview with DeLong, but spokesmen for the White House and NSA instead scrapped the entire interview and sent along their own prepared statement for publication in its place.
(1/3) NSA guy agreed there could be unspecified on-record quotes but asked to review them first. I seldom do that but…. @ioerror
— Barton Gellman (@bartongellman) August 16, 2013
(2/3) entire subject was classified so I reluctantly agreed. Obviously it was a mistake. I warned his spox I wouldn't let them … @ioerror
— Barton Gellman (@bartongellman) August 16, 2013
(3/3) choose or edit quotes. When they tried to replace the quotes I disclosed the whole sequence here. http://t.co/9GSFZkPcNI @ioerror
— Barton Gellman (@bartongellman) August 16, 2013
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This NSA official told us he could be quoted here, then the White House asked us to edit his quotes. We declined. http://t.co/hIsvbd3R4W
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 16, 2013
WPost reports NSA dir. of compliance answered questions freely in 90-min intv. After WhiteHouse tried to edit quotes (NO) WH tried to nix it
— J. Israel Balderas, Esq. (@jisraelbalderas) August 16, 2013
Genius FU by WaPost to WH. Quotes "Senior NSA official speaking w/ WH permission on anonymity" then names him here: http://t.co/jDj2O3B6AZ
— (((Pat McMenamin))) (@prmcmenamin) August 16, 2013
Will Edward Snowden be getting some company?
https://twitter.com/sconover/status/368214172628029442
“Washington Post seeks political asylum in Moscow”
— Xeni Jardin (@xeni) August 16, 2013
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