“Two
leaked documents suggest that in 2012 the Obama administration
empowered NSA to expand its web surveillance on Americans without any
warrant. Documents show that Justice Department lawyers wrote two
secret memos in mid-2012, giving green light to the National Security
Agency (NSA) to begin monitoring internet traffic, without securing
warrant, anywhere on the American soil.”
“The
documents, leaked to the New York Times and ProPublica on Thursday,
note that the surveillance which began in 2012, has actually been
going on without issuing individual warrants required under the 1978
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. It is also stated in the memos
that the warrantless surveillance has already been legalized since
2008.”
“The
new disclosures are leaked by Edward Snowden, [...] The leaks come
amid heated debates over whether the intelligence agencies are even
allowed to have such authority to go deep into people’s privacy,
let alone expanding such activities. A bid to expand such rights
under the USA Freedom Act was only partially approved a few days ago,
when the US Senate decided to allow NSA and other American agencies
to keep on with modified versions of their data collection programs.”
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