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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans
The collection is warrantless.

Secretive court rules NSA can keep collecting phone records

The latest approval was the first since two conflicting court decisions about whether the program is lawful and since a presidential advisory panel recommended that the NSA no longer be allowed to collect and store the phone records and search them without obtaining separate court approval for each search.

44 posted on 12/04/2015 1:42:55 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: DJ MacWoW
The collection is warrantless.

Yes, "collection," key word, that's obvious from what I wrote. Your link also specifically uses the phrase: "without obtaining separate court approval for each search." That's because they receive a blanket warrant giving them authority to look at all relevant information. So when the FBI is looking at Osama's phone call list, they don't need to get a specific warrant for each individual Osama is talking to to get their records.

If you have within your circle of friends someone the FBI is investigating for terrorism, I think you have bigger problems than the FBI having your call logs.

47 posted on 12/04/2015 1:53:10 PM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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