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A Cold War listening station near Berlin.
By Summit Voice
SUMMIT COUNTY — The so-called war on terror has resulted in a fundamental change in U.S. policies on interrogations and surveillance, with most civil rights advocates claiming that the government has gone too far in the name of security.
Those excesses include 2008 provisions of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that enable the government to conduct warrantless surveillance and searches of communications like emails and phone calls.
Because the operations conducted by the government under those provisions is shrouded in secrecy, nobody really knows how many communications have been intercepted and read. (more…)
Filed under: world news | Tagged: FISA, FISA Amendments Act, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Mark Udall, Ron Wyden, United States, warrantless surveillance | Leave a Comment »
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