Posted on 06/20/2013 3:22:58 PM PDT by SE Mom
Top secret documents submitted to the court that oversees surveillance by US intelligence agencies show the judges have signed off on broad orders which allow the NSA to make use of information "inadvertently" collected from domestic US communications without a warrant.
The Guardian is publishing in full two documents submitted to the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (known as the Fisa court), signed by Attorney General Eric Holder and stamped 29 July 2009. They detail the procedures the NSA is required to follow to target "non-US persons" under its foreign intelligence powers and what the agency does to minimize data collected on US citizens and residents in the course of that surveillance.
The documents show that even under authorities governing the collection of foreign intelligence from foreign targets, US communications can still be collected, retained and used.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
He would have been silenced. No doubt about it.
Are you ore bugged about the messenger, or what he revealed?
“We have not so secret rules that govern our country. We call it the Constitution”
Boy, that takes me back. Those were great days, weren’t they?
Our enemies cannot be so stupid that they don’t already know we listen to them.
10% mad that he broke his oath of secrecy. 90% enraged that the government has gone WAAAAAAAAAAAY beyond what has been publicly said.
We’ve been lied to by the government. BADLY.
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