I do love “The allegation that the National Security Agency collected more than 70 million “recordings of French citizens’ telephone data” is false.”
“We did not collect any recordings of telephone data.”
“Recordings of… wha? No, did you listen to the telephone conversations?”
“We did not listen to any telephones, no.”
“No, no, the conversations! Did you listen to them?”
“We did not collect any conversations that weren’t recorded.”
“Look, this is useless. How about the data? You collected data on the conversations, right?”
“We did not listen to any recordings of telephone metadata at any time.”
“Oh, bugger off…”
