Obama administration had restrictions on NSA reversed in 2011 (Congress, interviews, legal)

[Bludy-L]

The "most transparent administration ever" secretly changed the restrictions on the NSA.........


"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."

http://m.washingtonpost.com/world/na...fd5_story.html


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[brentwoodgirl]

But don't worry, they aren't tracking known terror extremists, like the Boston bombers.

[bluesjuke]

"What had not been previously acknowledged is that the court in 2008 imposed an explicit ban — at the government’s request — on those kinds of searches, that officials in 2011 got the court to lift the bar and that the search authority has been used.
Together the permission to search and to keep data longer expanded the NSA’s authority in significant ways without public debate or any specific authority from Congress. The administration’s assurances rely on legalistic definitions of the term “target” that can be at odds with ordinary English usage. The enlarged authority is part of a fundamental shift in the government’s approach to surveillance: collecting first, and protecting Americans’ privacy later."

[Bludy-L]

Didn't Mr Obama distinctly and unequivocally say they weren't spying on Americans?

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[SourD]

Of course. Progressives/Islamists/Communists are ALL liars and do everything in secrecy.

[Bludy-L]

Originally Posted by SourD

Of course. Progressives/Islamists/Communists are ALL liars and do everything in secrecy.

That's right.....it's a "phoney scandal".

I guess that too was a blatant lie.

Boy if this was GW Bush the Left would be HOWLING over this news! Hypocrites.

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[Bludy-L]

Where all the Obama apologists?

Do they make a concerted effort to ignore threads where they can't nuance and cover his butt?

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[KickAssArmyChick]

Crickets....

[Bludy-L]

The silence is deafening!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk_-XWpUFmU

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[BentBow]

Yes, it is the nu-wave wiretaping of the Republican party candidates.
How do you think they knew so much.


You intercept communications during war(campaign) and you will win the war.