US Spy Chief Reverses Course, Will Not Say How Many Americans Caught in NSA Surveillance (zdnet.com)

Zack Whittaker, writing for ZDNet: US Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats has refused to say how many Americans have been caught up in the government's surveillance programs, reversing a confirmation pledge he made earlier this year. Coats said at a hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee on the reauthorization of a key foreign surveillance law that it is "infeasible" to provide an estimate of how many Americans' communications have been collected by the National Security Agency. It's a key question that has been raised by senior lawmakers on several occasions of both the Obama and Trump administrations.

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Re:Impeachment

[Anonymous Coward]

Outsider looking in, ever consider that the following can all be true?

1) The russians worked their asses off to see trump elected

2) the trump campaign wasn't actively colluding with them

3) trumps actions given the situation are reason enough to despise him and potentially look to impeachment?

just saying, at this point the actuality of collusion isn't necessary to prove the fellow unfit to be president.

IE: All of them

[grasshoppa]

It's infeasible not because it's technically challenging or anything. No, it's because they don't want to deal with the PR fall out.

Not that anyone would care.