I know, it's piling on to bring this up....
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.
In addition, the court extended the length of time that the NSA
is allowed to retain intercepted U.S. communications from five years to
six years — and more under special circumstances,...
So it must be Bush's fault, no?
No.
...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
Well, maybe it's "the WORLD'S surveillance community" which begged for the permission.
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