ACLU records show 64% growth in electronic spying under O

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department's use of electronic devices to intercept phone numbers, email addresses and online information has climbed by 64 percent since 2009, according to a study of records released under the Freedom of Information Act.

Government data shows that from 2009 to 2011, the combined number of court orders for so-called pen registers and trap and trace devices on phones rose from 23,535 in 2009 to 37,616 in 2011, according to the American Civil Liberties Union

from the ACLU

That ought to make you big government loving progressives happy. :Koolaid:

Woo hoo. Gathering data to determine who will go to the "FEMA" camps?

They are likely monitoring this thread, so be careful.

HI Mr. FBI CIA Homeland Security agent, just a loyal taxpayer servant here, no worries!

Yep I am all talk and no walk. Besides I lost all my guns in a boating accident on Jefferson Lake during a hurricane.

FredHayek wrote: Yep I am all talk and no walk. Besides I lost all my guns in a boating accident on Jefferson Lake during a hurricane.

I buried mine to keep the kids safe, but then forgot where.