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http://circa.com/politics/barack-ob...s-of-illegal-nsa-searches-spying-on-americans
HOLY. FUCKING. SHIT.
And people thought Nixon was bad when we wiredtapped a few journalists. We let Obama wiretap and unmask thousands of people and get away with it.
Trump is already righting this ship though. Last month, the NSA announced it will delete the majority of its upstream data collected on US individuals, and that it will stop using merely mentioning a foreign target as surveillance criteria.
Also, surprising absolutely no one, there is a complete MSM blackout on this.
More than 5 percent, or one out of every 20 searches seeking upstream Internet data on Americans inside the NSA’s so-called Section 702 database violated the safeguards Obama and his intelligence chiefs vowed to follow in 2011, according to one classified internal report reviewed by Circa.
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The normally supportive court censured administration officials, saying the failure to disclose the extent of the violations earlier amounted to an “institutional lack of candor” and that the improper searches constituted a “very serious Fourth Amendment issue,” according to a recently unsealed court document dated April 26, 2017.
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Officials like former National Security Adviser Susan Rice have argued their activities were legal under the so-called minimization rule changes Obama made, and that the intelligence agencies were strictly monitored to avoid abuses.
The intelligence court and the NSA’s own internal watchdog found that not to be true.
“Since 2011, NSA’s minimization procedures have prohibited use of U.S.-person identifiers to query the results of upstream Internet collections under Section 702,” the unsealed court ruling declared. “The Oct. 26, 2016 notice informed the court that NSA analysts had been conducting such queries inviolation of that prohibition, with much greater frequency than had been previously disclosed to the Court.”
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The American Civil Liberties Union said the newly disclosed violations are some of the most serious to ever be documented and strongly call into question the U.S. intelligence community’s ability to police itself and safeguard American’s privacy as guaranteed by the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment protections against unlawful search and seizure.
“I think what this emphasizes is the shocking lack of oversight of these programs,” said Neema Singh Guliani, the ACLU’s legislative counsel in Washington.
HOLY. FUCKING. SHIT.
And people thought Nixon was bad when we wiredtapped a few journalists. We let Obama wiretap and unmask thousands of people and get away with it.
Trump is already righting this ship though. Last month, the NSA announced it will delete the majority of its upstream data collected on US individuals, and that it will stop using merely mentioning a foreign target as surveillance criteria.
Also, surprising absolutely no one, there is a complete MSM blackout on this.