NSA performed warrantless searches on Americans' calls and emails – Clapper
Spencer Ackerman in Washington and James Ball in New York
The Guardian, Tuesday 1 April 2014 16.17 EDT
The NSA's collection programs are ostensibly targeted at foreigners, but in August the Guardian revealed a secret rule change allowing NSA analysts to search for Americans' details within the databases.
Now, in a letter to Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat on the intelligence committee, the director of national intelligence, James Clapper, has confirmed for the first time the use of this legal authority to search for data related to “US persons”.
“There have been queries, using US person identifiers, of communications lawfully acquired to obtain foreign intelligence targeting non-US persons reasonably believed to be located outside the United States,” Clapper wrote in the letter, which has been obtained by the Guardian.
(More here.)
The Guardian, Tuesday 1 April 2014 16.17 EDT
- NSA used 'back door' to search Americans' communications
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- Data collected under 'Prism' and 'Upstream' programs
The NSA's collection programs are ostensibly targeted at foreigners, but in August the Guardian revealed a secret rule change allowing NSA analysts to search for Americans' details within the databases.
Now, in a letter to Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat on the intelligence committee, the director of national intelligence, James Clapper, has confirmed for the first time the use of this legal authority to search for data related to “US persons”.
“There have been queries, using US person identifiers, of communications lawfully acquired to obtain foreign intelligence targeting non-US persons reasonably believed to be located outside the United States,” Clapper wrote in the letter, which has been obtained by the Guardian.
(More here.)
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I realize that a lot of this was started when Bush was President but, it has continued under a DEM. Those on the left side of the aisle should remember this when they push for more and more and more government in our lives.
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