NSA collecting phone data on millions of people
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The right was all in favor of this when it began. They were shocked to learn that a democrat might do it.
Short-sighted, to say the least.
Short-sighted, to say the least.
Congress sends NSA phone-records bill to president Am 8:5, Jn 8:36, Re 13:17
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Odd that all the conservatives who were cheering for the wiretapping, when it was passed under Bush, are now shocked and dismayed to learn that a democrat president is using it.
Told you guys so, back when you were all in favor of it. Now, stopping it is going to be a much bigger chore, thanks to your stupidity.
Under this program, referred to by the Bush administration as the terrorist surveillance program, part of the broader President's Surveillance Program, the NSA was authorized by executive order to monitor, without search warrants, the phone calls, Internet activity (Web, e-mail, etc.), text messaging, and other communication involving any party believed by the NSA to be outside the U.S., even if the other end of the communication lies within the U.S. However, it has been discovered that all U.S. communications have been digitally cloned by government agencies, in apparent violation of unreasonable search and seizure. The excuse given to avoid litigation was that no data hoarded would be reviewed until searching it would be legal. But no excuse has been offered the initial seizure of the data which is also illegal[citation needed], according to the U. S. Constitution .
Critics, however, claimed that the program was in an effort to attempt to silence critics of the Bush Administration and its handling of several controversial issues during its tenure. Under public pressure, the Bush administration allegedly ceased the warrantless wiretapping program in January 2007 and returned review of surveillance to the FISA court. Subsequently, in 2008 Congress passed the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, which relaxed some of the original FISA court requirements.
During the Obama Administration, the NSA has allegedly continued operating under the new FISA guidelines despite campaign promises to end warrantless wiretapping. However, in April 2009 officials at the United States Department of Justice acknowledged that the NSA had engaged in "overcollection" of domestic communications in excess of the FISA court's authority, but claimed that the acts were unintentional and had since been rectified.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance_(2001–07)
Reaction to the leaks about the controversial program revealed some double standards—and alliances. Conservatives widely supported the NSA's program as a necessary weapon in the war on terror when it was introduced by President George Bush, while many Democrats accused the Bush administration of over-stepping its authority and trampling on civil liberties. A dozen years later with a Democrat in the White House, opinions were largely reversed, though many Democrats were reserved in their defense of the surveillance program.
http://www.infoplease.com/news/2014/nsa-surveillance-program.html
Did you honestly think that only conservative presidents were going to use such a handy tool?
Told you guys so, back when you were all in favor of it. Now, stopping it is going to be a much bigger chore, thanks to your stupidity.
Under this program, referred to by the Bush administration as the terrorist surveillance program, part of the broader President's Surveillance Program, the NSA was authorized by executive order to monitor, without search warrants, the phone calls, Internet activity (Web, e-mail, etc.), text messaging, and other communication involving any party believed by the NSA to be outside the U.S., even if the other end of the communication lies within the U.S. However, it has been discovered that all U.S. communications have been digitally cloned by government agencies, in apparent violation of unreasonable search and seizure. The excuse given to avoid litigation was that no data hoarded would be reviewed until searching it would be legal. But no excuse has been offered the initial seizure of the data which is also illegal[citation needed], according to the U. S. Constitution .
Critics, however, claimed that the program was in an effort to attempt to silence critics of the Bush Administration and its handling of several controversial issues during its tenure. Under public pressure, the Bush administration allegedly ceased the warrantless wiretapping program in January 2007 and returned review of surveillance to the FISA court. Subsequently, in 2008 Congress passed the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, which relaxed some of the original FISA court requirements.
During the Obama Administration, the NSA has allegedly continued operating under the new FISA guidelines despite campaign promises to end warrantless wiretapping. However, in April 2009 officials at the United States Department of Justice acknowledged that the NSA had engaged in "overcollection" of domestic communications in excess of the FISA court's authority, but claimed that the acts were unintentional and had since been rectified.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance_(2001–07)
Reaction to the leaks about the controversial program revealed some double standards—and alliances. Conservatives widely supported the NSA's program as a necessary weapon in the war on terror when it was introduced by President George Bush, while many Democrats accused the Bush administration of over-stepping its authority and trampling on civil liberties. A dozen years later with a Democrat in the White House, opinions were largely reversed, though many Democrats were reserved in their defense of the surveillance program.
http://www.infoplease.com/news/2014/nsa-surveillance-program.html
Did you honestly think that only conservative presidents were going to use such a handy tool?
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NSA collected Americans’ phone records despite law change: report Am 8:5, Jn 8:36, Re 13:17