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New Details Show Broader NSA Surveillance Reach
The Wall Street Journal ^ | August 20, 2013 | SIOBHAN GORMAN and JENNIFER VALENTINO-DEVRIES

Posted on 08/20/2013 5:51:05 PM PDT by John W

WASHINGTON—The National Security Agency—which possesses only limited legal authority to spy on U.S. citizens—has built a surveillance network that covers more Americans' Internet communications than officials have publicly disclosed, current and former officials say.

The system has the capacity to reach roughly 75% of all U.S. Internet traffic in the hunt for foreign intelligence, including a wide array of communications by foreigners and Americans. In some cases, it retains the written content of emails sent between citizens within the U.S. and also filters domestic phone calls made with Internet technology, these people say.

Details of these surveillance programs were gathered from interviews with current and former intelligence and government officials and people from companies that help build or operate the systems, or provide data. Most have direct knowledge of the work.

(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: benghazi; fastandfurious; impeachnow; irs; nsa; nsascandal; nsaspying; spyingonamericans; surveillancestate; treason; warrantlesssearches
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To: originalbuckeye
This is the most corrupt and lawless Admin in the history of our once great country. And NO ONE will do anything about it!

How quickly you've forgotton the Impeachment of The Kenyan on 56 Counts, 782 Indictments against Gangsta Inc for racketeering, fraud, murder, blackmail, and ice cream theft! The "process" worked properly and legally, and thus incarcerated ZERO's entire Administration for High Treason! All Hail to the US Constitution and the righteous indignation of Congress! The Republic is SAVED!

Wait....I wuz dreaming. But I think Boehner farted in Zero's general direction. Nope. The case was just the opposite. (But Issa's still PO'd at Holder.)

41 posted on 08/20/2013 10:18:56 PM PDT by USS Johnston (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. ~ Edmund Burke)
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To: originalbuckeye

Allow me to explain.

If we stand up for ourselves and demand that the GOP stop the libs from Going fill metal Big Brother on us, they will lose their elections and the libs will go fullmetal Big Brother on us. So we have to remain silent and let them allow all this and even help it happen, otherwise we will be in trouble.

If you look at the ‘logic’ employed by the GOP sycophants, you will see the above is exactly what is happening.


42 posted on 08/21/2013 2:18:03 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: John W
The National Security Agency—which possesses only limited legal authority to spy on U.S. citizens—has built a surveillance network that covers more Americans' Internet communications than officials have publicly disclosed

The government lied to us? I am shcoked, shocked!

43 posted on 08/21/2013 4:38:47 AM PDT by shego
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To: VerySadAmerican

It started before Bush and practically every person reading this has voted for their police state along the way in one or another way.


44 posted on 08/21/2013 5:54:56 AM PDT by wrencher
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To: John W
"retains the written content of emails sent between citizens within the U.S."

The government is reading your mail.

If your email was a stamped mailed letter, the NSA would be in prison.

The NSA is only a scintilla of a technicality away from being felonious.

45 posted on 08/21/2013 6:23:06 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Where's my pressure cooker backpack wmd ricin laced al qaeda terrorist BASSELOPE?)
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To: Norm Lenhart

Eh?


46 posted on 08/21/2013 6:51:05 AM PDT by HollyB
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To: HollyB

The poster commented no one was doing anything about all this BS. I eas using sarcasm to basically explain what they are doing.


47 posted on 08/21/2013 6:58:41 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Norm Lenhart

Okidoke, thx


48 posted on 08/21/2013 7:00:29 AM PDT by HollyB
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To: John W
"The system has the capacity to reach roughly 75% of all U.S. Internet traffic in the hunt for foreign intelligence,"

How come I don't beleive that bolded section?

49 posted on 08/21/2013 7:12:27 AM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
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To: John W

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- UNDER OPANSYCARE :

Obama’s FED THUGS can and will enter your homes and your businesses without a warrant if :

- #1 - You are a smoker

- #2 - You own firearms

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- “We have to pass it to see what is in it!”

— (the Speaker) Nancy Pelosi

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50 posted on 08/21/2013 7:57:14 AM PDT by devolve (----- ----- ----- it not unlegal iffen I do`s it ----- ----- -----)
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To: John W

Why the assumption that the NSA is only looking for ‘foreign intelligence’?

Apparently they can read the personal emails of leading Republicans and conservatives and then leak that information to the IRS, DHS, FBI, DNC, and the media.


51 posted on 08/21/2013 9:05:06 AM PDT by MeganC (A gun is like a parachute. If you need one, and don't have one, you'll never need one again.)
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To: John W

Not surprised, probably more detail to come.
BOHICA!


52 posted on 08/21/2013 9:44:30 AM PDT by Huskerfan44 (Huskerfan44)
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To: devolve

BOHICA


53 posted on 08/21/2013 10:13:54 AM PDT by Huskerfan44 (Huskerfan44)
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To: shego
I'm still trying to find the Amendment that passed that 'allowed' ...which possesses only limited legal authority to spy on U.S. citizens. In my copy of the Constitution, the 4th still stands.
54 posted on 08/21/2013 10:39:36 AM PDT by i_robot73 (Give me one example and I will show where gov't is the root of all problems.)
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55 posted on 08/21/2013 12:19:48 PM PDT by RedMDer (http://www.dontfundobamacare.com/)
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To: i_robot73
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56 posted on 08/21/2013 2:39:14 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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To: null and void
Absolutely! As soon as you follow the rule.

Can I get someone else added to the list if I threaten to rat you out to the mods?

57 posted on 08/21/2013 7:00:14 PM PDT by zeugma (Be a truechimer, not a falseticker!)
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To: zeugma; gaijin

Nope. People have to do their own threatening.


58 posted on 08/21/2013 7:29:58 PM PDT by null and void (Frequent terrorist attacks OR endless government snooping and oppression? We can have both!)
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To: John W

59 posted on 08/22/2013 7:52:13 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: John W

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Obama administration had restrictions on NSA reversed in 2011
The Washington Post ^ | Ellen Nakashima

Posted on Sunday, September 08, 2013 6:59:34 AM by originalbuckeye

The Obama administration secretly won permission from a surveillance court in 2011 to reverse restrictions on the National Security Agency’s use of intercepted phone calls and e-mails, permitting the agency to search deliberately for Americans’ communications in its massive databases, according to interviews with government officials and recently declassified material.

In addition, the court extended the length of time that the NSA is allowed to retain intercepted U.S. communications from five years to six years — and more under special circumstances, according to the documents, which include a recently released 2011 opinion by U.S. District Judge John D. Bates, then chief judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.


60 posted on 09/08/2013 7:35:38 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( When insane/feral Islamics are killing each other, stand back and let Allah sort them out!)
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