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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSource: Obama Considering Releasing NSA Court Order
Source: Obama Considering Releasing NSA Court Order
by Carrie Johnson
NPR has learned that the Obama administration, under pressure to lift a cloak of secrecy, is considering whether to declassify a court order that gives the National Security Agency the power to gather phone call record information on millions of Americans.
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University of San Francisco law professor Susan Freiwald told the ACS audience that the dragnet phone-data collection program was "quite clearly unconstitutional under the Fourth Amendment" and that gaping loopholes in the law, advances in technology and weak oversight by Congress only added to the problem....But FBI Director Robert S. Mueller told the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday that under a 1979 ruling in Smith vs. Maryland, the Supreme Court found people have no reasonable expectation of privacy when it comes to phone-call metadata. The information does not include the content of phone calls...The senior administration official told NPR that the phone-call records can be kept only for five years and that the NSA does not use that program to keep data that would allow authorities to track where people are located when they're using their phones. The source said even though the NSA may have that power to collect the geolocation data under the law and the secret court's rulings, the NSA does not use it.
To query the huge pools of metadata, authorities say they need to have a reasonable, articulable suspicion of an association with a terrorism organization. That standard is approved by the FISA court but the court does not review each query. Rather, the senior administration official said, the queries are documented and a sample of them is audited by the Justice Department's National Security Division and the Director of National Intelligence.
The official added that the number of people who can perform the searches and the number of people who can review them is limited. And the reasonable suspicion determination must be reauthorized after a certain unspecified period, to prevent searches that could go on forever.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/06/14/191822828/source-obama-considering-releasing-nsa-court-order
by Carrie Johnson
NPR has learned that the Obama administration, under pressure to lift a cloak of secrecy, is considering whether to declassify a court order that gives the National Security Agency the power to gather phone call record information on millions of Americans.
<...>
University of San Francisco law professor Susan Freiwald told the ACS audience that the dragnet phone-data collection program was "quite clearly unconstitutional under the Fourth Amendment" and that gaping loopholes in the law, advances in technology and weak oversight by Congress only added to the problem....But FBI Director Robert S. Mueller told the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday that under a 1979 ruling in Smith vs. Maryland, the Supreme Court found people have no reasonable expectation of privacy when it comes to phone-call metadata. The information does not include the content of phone calls...The senior administration official told NPR that the phone-call records can be kept only for five years and that the NSA does not use that program to keep data that would allow authorities to track where people are located when they're using their phones. The source said even though the NSA may have that power to collect the geolocation data under the law and the secret court's rulings, the NSA does not use it.
To query the huge pools of metadata, authorities say they need to have a reasonable, articulable suspicion of an association with a terrorism organization. That standard is approved by the FISA court but the court does not review each query. Rather, the senior administration official said, the queries are documented and a sample of them is audited by the Justice Department's National Security Division and the Director of National Intelligence.
The official added that the number of people who can perform the searches and the number of people who can review them is limited. And the reasonable suspicion determination must be reauthorized after a certain unspecified period, to prevent searches that could go on forever.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/06/14/191822828/source-obama-considering-releasing-nsa-court-order
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Source: Obama Considering Releasing NSA Court Order (Original Post)
ProSense
Jun 2013
OP
This would mean Snowden is the stupid spy, he should have known this information collections was
Thinkingabout
Jun 2013
#3
I pray that he does, then warrantless crap can go away and snowden will look like MORE of an idiot f
uponit7771
Jun 2013
#4
JW2020
(169 posts)1. I propose that we scrutinize all politicians in DC the same way
Go through their trash daily and post the contents online. Have them followed and photographed at every waking moment.
uponit7771
(90,339 posts)5. ....and then make the viewing of it by warrant only right?
malaise
(268,998 posts)2. And when they privatize this collection of metadata who regulates those
contractors with their vested interests.
Corporations have already forced most of us to buy security for our computers and land lines to block telemarketers and spammers.
We have no protection anywhere from anyone.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)3. This would mean Snowden is the stupid spy, he should have known this information collections was
with warrant. But perhaps he did, but his overwhelming desire to cause a what he considered a scandal he has become a criminal. I am beginning it was a setup from the start, intentional and premeditated which should increase his punishment. And for the ones fighting the "cause" needs to start looking over their shoulders also.
uponit7771
(90,339 posts)4. I pray that he does, then warrantless crap can go away and snowden will look like MORE of an idiot f
....for not revealing anything new
ProSense
(116,464 posts)6. He should release it. n/t
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)7. Any sentence that contains "NSA does not use," "does not include," or "is limited" is a *^%^* lie.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)8. Kick