The Surveillance State: Trust Us, It’s Legal
John Glaser
AntiWar.com
May 24, 2012
Julian Sanchez at the Cato Institute on the renewal of the FISA Amendment Act and the lawless surveillance state:
It’s been almost four years since the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 put President Bush’s warrantless wiretap program on legal footing by authorizing broad, programmatic surveillance of Americans’ international communications. The only thing the public really knows about it so far is that it was almost immediately misused, resulting in “significant and systemic” overcollection of Americans’ purely domestic communications. Subsequent reporting revealed that the improperly “overcollected” communications could number in the millions, and included former president Clinton’s private e-mails. So naturally, the Senate is charging ahead toward the renewal of these sweeping powers without hearings or debate.
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