Clapper said that the intended targets were foreign, and that information about Americans was "incidentally acquired".
"I suspect there are two justifications for holding on to this personal data incidentally acquired.
He added that the surveillance was subject to a strict legal review to "minimize the acquisition, retention and dissemination of incidentally acquired information about U.S. persons".
The Obama Administration has acknowledged the existence of Prism, though it claims that the program is targeting only foreigners, and that any data from American users has been "incidentally acquired".
It involves extensive procedures, specifically approved by the court, to ensure that only non-US persons outside the US are targeted, and that minimise the acquisition, retention and dissemination of incidentally acquired information about US persons".
It involves extensive procedures, specifically approved by the court, to ensure that only non-US persons outside the US are targeted, and that minimize the acquisition, retention and dissemination of incidentally acquired information about US persons.
Officials said the program, called Prism, is authorized under a foreign intelligence law that was recently renewed by Congress, and maintained that it minimizes the collection and retention of information "incidentally acquired" about Americans and permanent residents.
Both Ukraine and Georgia, two former Soviet republics that cause big headaches in the Kremlin, are now in the WTO, leaving Russia behind (and, not incidentally, acquiring a veto over its membership).
Within a comparatively short time he had taken over the old Doric Ballroom in London for his Revuebar, incidentally acquiring the lease of other properties in the vicinity that were to make him a multimillionaire and then a billionaire when property values rocketed.
In confirming its existence, officials said that the program, called Prism, is authorized under a foreign intelligence law that was recently renewed by Congress, and maintained that it minimizes the collection and retention of information "incidentally acquired" about Americans and permanent residents.
Two were tested on probe stimuli of a self-referring (AUTO) nature and two were tested on incidentally acquired details of a mock crime (MOCK).
