Obama has sought to dismiss "the hype that we've been hearing," as he put it, about the NSA's data-crunching efforts by arguing that they're complex answers to national security challenges — and ones that Congress has been fully briefed on.
What these documents show, though, is that in 2014 one of Russia's biggest companies was fully briefed on: Facebook, microtargeting, data, election disruption.
"I am one of the few members of this body who has been fully briefed on the warrantless-wiretapping program," Feingold said at the time, in a speech on the Senate floor.
Even Boeing test pilots weren't fully briefed on MCAS.
With respect to all these programs, the relevant intelligence committees are fully briefed on these programs.
Rahm Emanuel, the chief of staff, said the president was fully briefed on the decision.
Holder says that members of Congress have been "fully briefed" on the NSA spying program.
The BBC Trust has since claimed not to have been fully briefed on these redundancy deals.
"He arrived and he needed to be spoken to and fully briefed on it.
5.03pm BST Holder says that members of Congress have been "fully briefed" on the NSA spying program.
Despite the fact that they were to be fully briefed on the project's artistic purpose, a controversy ensued.
