[lsiebert]

He was asked about the interception of the email content, but most of the information we have suggests that the NSA is receiving information about email and phone metadata.

Also the questions focus on what the NSA is intercepting, not what they are being given /demanding under a NSL.

Also it's unclear what processing by computers may be done of such material. If you have a computer doing threat assessment of all emails, but the NSA employees only get the assessment results, not the text, they could arguably state what they are saying.

Wrong questions. Someone should clue congress into the right questions.

[cobrabyte]

Or, perhaps, the individual asking the questions phrased them in a manner that would set the public at ease. The words seemed to have been deliberately chosen to cover the government's ass if/when the truth comes out.

see: "It depends on what the definition of 'is' is."