| What's worse is that Clapper was using the NSA's definition of "Collect", which is what everyone else calls "Read and Analyze". What everyone else would call "Collection" the NSA calls something like "Interception". Here's DNI Clapper in a 2013 interview, talking about that very question: > First, as I said, I have great respect for Senator Wyden. I thought though in retrospect I was asked when are you going to start--stop beating your wife kind of question which is, meaning not answerable necessarily, by a simple yes or no. So I responded in what I thought was the most truthful or least most untruthful manner, by saying, “No.” And again, going back to my metaphor, what I was thinking of is looking at the Dewey Decimal numbers of those books in the metaphorical library. To me collection of U.S. Persons data would mean taking the books off the shelf, opening it up and reading it. (via: <https://web.archive.org/web/20130614222820/https://www.dni.g...>) And here's Schneier talking about the topic: <https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/10/why-the...> And here's some random dude on the internet also discussing the topic: <https://ethanheilman.tumblr.com/post/99480839105/definitions...> Again, according to DNI Clapper, wiretapping and recording the results isn't collection. It's only collection when someone pulls the information out of storage and reads it. |