Report: Verizon providing all call records to U.S. under court order

WaPo.com ^ | 6/5/2013 | Ellen Nakashima

[South40]

The National Security Agency appears to be collecting the telephone records of tens of millions of American customers of Verizon, one of the nation’s largest phone companies, under a top-secret court order issued in April.

The order appears to require a Verizon subsidiary to provide the NSA with daily information on all telephone calls by its customers within the United States and from foreign locations into the United States.

The order, which was signed by a judge from the secret court that oversees domestic surveillance, was first reported on the Web site of the Guardian newspaper. The Web site reproduced a copy of the order, which two former U.S. officials told The Washington Post appears to be authentic.

[Cyropaedia]

"Complaining about the NSA is really just another way of saying 'n*****'...".

[Timber Rattler]

Flashback to May 2011:

GOP struggles for PATRIOT Act votes

"House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) offered a stern warning to his fellow lawmakers in a closed conference meeting Wednesday at the Capitol Hill Club: Don’t you dare vote no unless you attend Mueller’s briefing and ask your questions."

Bachmann defends vote for Patriot Act after fielding complaints about government over-reach

"Tea Party favorite Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) on Thursday night spent five minutes on the House floor in an attempt to justify her vote for the Patriot Act, after admitting to receiving significant feedback from her supporters urging her to reject it."

[basil]

Why? I don’t say it out loud very often, but I think it a lot—LOL!

Apology accepted.

[sarasota]

Hussein is just doing his job as community organizer.

[jsanders2001]

> I don’t care what or how bad the terrorist act was, no excuse. Those of us opposed to it not just for Bush would do, but others are hereby vindicated. Let me be thw first to quote countless Freepers... “if you aren’t doing anything wrong,why do you care?.

Obviously they aren’t considering that the state can turn citizens into criminals by passing new laws. Those FReepers obviously arent very creative in their thinking...

[greedo]

Orrin Hatch National Data Center @ Army Garrison Camp Williams, Utah

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[Whenifhow]

Gretchen on Fox just now referred to it as an “international” court?

[Pan_Yan]

In moments like this one remembers all the times they scoffed at the crackpots and loons and their foolish conspiracies about banking cabals and shadow governments. One thinks about the giant NSA data center in Utah and congressmen who asked questions and then suddenly stopped asking questions. One briefly ponders Wikileaks, secret budgets and distant wars. The imagination flits from images of street corner cameras to drones to empty gold vaults.

And one sleeps restlessly.

[Whenifhow]

Secret court??
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Barack Obama’s national security state is now beyond democratic control

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3027941/posts

Those crazy American conspiracy theorists who live up trees with guns and drink their own pee don’t seem quite so crazy anymore. It turns out that a “secret court order” has empowered the US government to collect the phone records of millions of users of Verizon, one of the most popular telephone providers – a massive domestic surveillance programme and a shocking intrusion into the lives of others.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Once both parties experience the power of something like the Patriot Act you will never get rid of it.

[GSWarrior]

How can the NSA demand a company over these records? Is it a “do this or else...” thing. What would happen if a cell provider said “no.”