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You have no privacy.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 - The National Security Agency has traced and analyzed large volumes of telephone and Internet communications flowing into and out of the United States as part of the eavesdropping program that President Bush approved after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to hunt for evidence of terrorist activity, according to current and former government officials.
The volume of information harvested from telecommunication data and voice networks, without court-approved warrants, is much larger than the White House has acknowledged, the officials said. It was collected by tapping directly into some of the American telecommunication system's main arteries, they said.
As part of the program approved by President Bush for domestic surveillance without warrants, the N.S.A. has gained the cooperation of American telecommunications companies to obtain backdoor access to streams of domestic and international communications, the officials said.
You have no privacy.
posted by the spook @ 10:33 AM
1 Comments:
At 10:55 AM,
mikevotes said…
On the other side, I would think that this might mark a clear 4th amendment violation. Courts have gone back and forth over whether transaction details in phone records are indeed protected from the search clause, but I think the massive nature of this, might render that moot.
The best way to challenge it would be as an idividual suing the gov't, but as the info is classified, it would be tough to identify a damaged party.
Also, by this revelation, the Bush defense on this, that the FISA court doesn't give them the speed and agility necessary, seems to be somewhat validated.
If your objective is to analyze every call, email, and internet ping into, out of, and through the US, then, yes, filing all that paperwork could be a little cumbersome.
Mike
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