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Quotation of the Day for July 5, 2013



"And this has to do with of course somewhat of a semantic, perhaps some would say too--too cute by half. But it is--there are honest differences on the semantics of what--when someone says "collection" to me, that has a specific meaning, which may have a different meaning to him."

- James Clapper, Jr., U.S. Director of National Intelligence, explaining why it wasn't a lie for him to state that the National Security Agency did not "collect" data on Americans.

[https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/director-national-intelligences-word-games-explained-how-government-deceived]

Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk
Jul. 4, 2013

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