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The broad, unlimited nature of the records being handed over to the NSA is unusual. FISA court orders typically direct the production of records pertaining to a specific named target suspected of being an agent of a terrorist group or foreign state, or a finite set of individually named targets. NSA warrantless wiretapping during the George W. Bush administration after the 9/11 attacks was very controversial.
http://news.yahoo.com/white-house-defen ... 35514.html
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"While I cannot corroborate the details of this particular report, this sort of wide scale surveillance should concern all of us and is the kind of government overreach I've said Americans would find shocking," said Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colorado, who serves on the Senate Intelligence Committee.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/06/politics/ ... ?hpt=hp_t2
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/0 ... 95423.htmlWhite House Defends NSA Collection Of Phone Records
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Thursday defended the National Security Agency's need to collect telephone records of U.S. citizens, calling such information "a critical tool in protecting the nation from terrorist threats."
[Wellllll, if you use "protecting the nation from terrorist threats" in a sentence, you can do ANYTHING you want to...Right, Dubyah? Right, Obama?]
The broad, unlimited nature of the records being handed over to the NSA is unusual. FISA court orders typically direct the production of records pertaining to a specific named target suspected of being an agent of a terrorist group or foreign state, or a finite set of individually named targets. NSA warrantless wiretapping during the George W. Bush administration after the 9/11 attacks was very controversial.
The FISA court order, signed by Judge Roger Vinson, compelled Verizon to provide the NSA with electronic copies of "all call detail records or telephony metadata created by Verizon for communications between the United States and abroad" or "wholly within the United States, including local telephone calls," The Guardian said.
The law on which the order explicitly relies is the "business records" provision of the USA Patriot Act.
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FredHayek wrote: Whenever you think it can't get worse it does! They go from wiretapping reporters and goverment whistleblowers to wiretapping EVERYONE.
They just don't think the rules apply to them, do they?
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