Wall Street Journal Defends NSA Surveillance: ‘Thank You For Data-Mining’

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The conservative editorial board of the Wall Street Journal on Thursday defended the National Security Agency following a report that it has collected millions of phone records from Verizon.

In the piece, titled “Thank You for Data Mining,” the Journal dismissed any outrage over the revelation.

“Well, another day, another Washington furor,” the piece began. “This one is over a National Security Agency phone data monitoring program, but unlike the other White House scandals there seems to be little here that is scandalous. The existence of the program was exposed years ago and such surveillance is a core part of the war on terror, if we can still use that term.”

The Journal also took a swipe at The Guardian’s Glenn Greenwald, who broke the story.

“Someone leaked a classified three-page order from the special court established by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, to Glenn Greenwald of the Guardian newspaper, who is a committed anti-antiterror partisan,” the Journal’s board wrote. 

Read the entire piece here.

 

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