Our Administration: Catch 22 at it's finest...

Here is a perfect example of why Americans don't trust the government and why the number of conspiracy nuts keep growing.

For years, U.S. senators Ron Wyden and Mark Udall (of the Select Committee on Intelligence) have been asking the Director of National Intelligence to disclose how often the government might be "over-collecting" information on U.S. citizens by too enthusiastically applying the Patriot Act. The answer they keep getting from the Director's office is that such information, whether or not it reveals wrongdoing, is classified. Last July, the office finally declassified one fact that it said the Senators were free to use: that the government had "on at least one occasion" over-collected information in violation of constitutional protections. But, unfortunately, the number of times, and all other details, remain classified.

In other words: Yes, we broke the law, but we can't tell you about it because it's a secret....

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