U.S. defends monitoring - Computer Sweden

James R. Clapper, , Director of National Intelligence and reports directly to the President Barack Obama, in a statement defending the legality of the surveillance, and strongly criticizes Articles that risks to the national safety.

class=”paragraphIntro”> – The unauthorized disclosure of top secret U.S. court decisions have the potential for long-term and oreversibel damage to our ability to identify and respond to the many threats that our country is facing, says James R. Clapper.

It is a section of the Foreign Intelligence surveillence Act which received huge stir after it emerged that a large number of service providers on the network collaborates with the U.S. government to be able to provide real-time access to information about users. Both Facebook, Google, Apple and Microsoft are involved in the cooperation that will be far-reaching. However, companies have denied this.

James R. Clapper posted on Thursday U.S. time a statement that in addition referred to the nation’s security also that the law only allows the intelligence obtaining information on foreign targets. According to him, there are procedures to follow to ensure that it is not possible to monitor and obtain information on U.S. citizens. Moreover, he points out that there must be a good reason for the use of monitoring devices.

“Court allows only acc ess to the data when there is a reasonable suspicion, based on specific facts, that the basis for the request is associated with a foreign terrorist organization “writes James R. Clapper in the statement on its website.

The Guardian has earlier this week published an order telecom operator Verizon received by an intelligence court that forced the operator to issue so-called metadata for telephony. The information required was information about call routing, including trunk identification, call duration and time the call was made. Regarding the publication, James R. Clapper in a separate statement attempted to demonstrate the limitations as there are in the Foreign Intelligence surveillence Act, then it does not give them access to call content or the person behind the number.

In the written statement that came on Thursday was also a reference to national security, where James R. Clapper said that the publications they risk protection available to defend Americans.