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Obama to Trash Reagan’s Restrictions on Domestic Spying
Breitbart ^ | 2/28/16 | Chriss W. Street

Posted on 02/28/2016 10:00:42 AM PST by Nachum

With the pubic distracted by the FBI battling Apple for an iPhone backdoor, President Obama is secretly working to trash President Ronald Reagan’s restrictions on the number of federal agencies that can spy on Americans and others.

At a secret meeting of the United States National Security Council on Feb 25, President Obama approved a draft 21-page memo relaxing a Cold War Reagan-era directive called Executive Order 12333 that restricted the number of government agencies that can access, without court order or Presidential approval, the contents of phone calls, emails and data the U.S. National Security Agency vacuums up from around the world.

The new Obama memo would allow numerous federal agencies to share bulk data from satellites, foreign communications crossing U.S. network switches, messages acquired overseas, and data shared by American allies, according to the New York Times.

Sources indicate that the Obama administration initiative is being described as giving a number of U.S. government agencies direct access to the broad spectrum of electronic intercepts in the “hope that that they will recognize any possible nuggets of value.”

But the change will also mean that more officials will be looking at the raw data in private messages. Not only would that include foreigners’ phone calls and emails, but also communications to, from, or about Americans that the NSA’s foreign intelligence programs swept in “incidentally.”

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; apple; coreylewandowski; domestic; edrollins; election2016; fbi; newyork; paulmanafort; presidentdonaldtrump; restrictions; ronaldreagan; ronaldusmagnus; spying; trump
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To: Nachum

The liberal mainstream media won’t tell anyone that hypocrite Obama has fewer blacks in his cabinet than any president since Ronald Reagan. Irish heritage outnumbers blacks:
Obama’s Cabinet by ethnicity
Joe Biden: Irish mix (V.P.)
John Kerry: Scottish-Austro-Hungarian (State)
Jack Lew: Polish Jew (Treasury)
Ashton Carter: Anglo-Saxon (Defense)
Loretta Lynch: African American (A.G.)
Sally Jewell: English (Interior)
Tom Vilsack: ? Adopted (Agriculture)
Penny Pritzger: Jewish (Commerce)
Thomas Perez: Latino (Dominican) (Labor)
Sylvia Mathews Burwell: Anglo-Saxon/Greek (HHS)
Julian Castro: Latino (Mexican) (HUD)
Anthony Fox: African American (Transportation)
Ernest Moniz: Portuguese (Energy)
John King, Jr.: African American (Education)
Robert A. McDonald: Irish (Veterans)
Jeh Johnson: African American (Homeland)
Denis McDonough: Irish (Chief of Staff)
Gina McCarthy: Irish (EPA)
Michael Froman: Jewish (Trade Rep.)
Samantha Power: Irish (U.N.)
Jason Furman: Jewish (Economic Advisors)
Maria Contreras-Sweet: Latina (Mexican) (Small Business)

By race, 15 whites, 4 blacks and 3 Latinos


21 posted on 02/28/2016 2:43:12 PM PST by Nero Germanicus
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To: Swordmaker

It is all coming together, isn’t it? I defy anyone to tell us it is just about one phone used by one dead terrorist.


22 posted on 02/28/2016 3:53:46 PM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: CincyRichieRich

Trump says he is all about security. He said he will come down on the side of security everytime. I doubt he will object.


23 posted on 02/28/2016 3:55:23 PM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: CincyRichieRich

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3386607/posts?page=56#

How Donald Trump and Ted Cruz Differ on the Issues
January 23, 2016 at 3:45:15 PM EST · 56 of 61
Protect the Bill of Rights to kabar
Here is the transcription:

Trump: I have always come down on the side of security. To me, it’s the most important

Garrett: even if it means encroaching on the Bill of Rights?

Trump: I hate it. I hate the concept of it, but we’re dealing with some very, very bad dudes.

I find this unsettling. Unless he has walked this back, he is on record as saying as much as he hates it, our Constitution, the very document he would swear to “preserve, protect and defend” will always take a second place to security.

The devil is in the details. This is one detail I could never justify.

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He is already on record. Plus he says boycott Apple because they ar fighting the FBI in court.


24 posted on 02/28/2016 4:02:03 PM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: Nachum
"With the pubic distracted by the FBI battling Apple for an iPhone backdoor . . . "

Was that typo in the original story?
25 posted on 02/28/2016 4:08:38 PM PST by Steve_Seattle ("Above all, shake your bum at Burton.")
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To: Nachum
Obama and your privacy

Don't forget Trump; he's not interested in protecting your Constitutional right to privacy either.

26 posted on 02/28/2016 7:24:05 PM PST by Oliver Boliver Butt
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights

Odd, I read that as D hating encroaching on the BOR.


27 posted on 02/28/2016 8:57:23 PM PST by kallisti (fall mountains, just don't fall on me (JH))
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To: kallisti

I read it as much as he hates the idea, he would encroach in the name of security.


28 posted on 02/29/2016 3:23:39 AM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
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