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Secret court OKs continued US phone surveillance
Yahoo News ^ | 07/20/2013 | LARA JAKES

Posted on 07/20/2013 6:39:52 AM PDT by Earthdweller

WASHINGTON (AP) — A secret U.S. intelligence court renewed an order Friday to continue forcing Verizon Communications to turn over hundreds of millions of telephone records to the government each day in its search for foreign terror or espionage suspects.

The order by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has been in place for years but must be renewed every three months. It was exposed in June after former National Security Agency systems analyst Edward Snowden leaked details of two top secret U.S. surveillance programs that critics say violate privacy rights.

The order was set to expire Friday, and its renewal shows that the Obama administration and the court of 11 federal judges stand behind its legality.

In a statement, the office of National Intelligence Director James Clapper said it was confirming the Verizon renewal as part of an ongoing effort to make more information about the recently declassified programs as public as possible.

Clapper "has decided to declassify and disclose publicly that the government filed an application with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court seeking renewal of the authority to collect telephony metadata in bulk, and that the court renewed that authority," the statement said.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: benghazi; clapper; fastandfurious; fisa; fisacourt; impeachnow; irs; nsa; snowden; verizon
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To: JerseyDvl

Exactly...


21 posted on 07/20/2013 1:46:25 PM PDT by Triple (Socialism denies people the right to the fruits of their labor, and is as abhorrent as slavery)
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To: no-to-illegals

What do you mean? What is a lie? That they are collecting telephone data?


22 posted on 07/20/2013 2:20:28 PM PDT by boxlunch
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To: boxlunch
What is a lie?

My observation is the first sentence of the article is a lie in that they are not searching for terrorists or espionage suspects, only records of disgruntled citizen speaking out against their surveillance and methods of collecting information on the legal citizens. None of the collection methods are for stopping terrorists (imho).

23 posted on 07/20/2013 2:24:27 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: no-to-illegals

Ok. I thought you were saying they weren’t collecting information on us. Yes. Their ‘excuse’ is definitely a lie


24 posted on 07/20/2013 2:51:50 PM PDT by boxlunch
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To: Georgia Girl 2; P-Marlowe

>> Oh Yeh. Remember how the left railed agains’t the Patriot Act.

Yup, like former Senator Feingold that fell silent the first two years of Obama’s presidency,


25 posted on 07/20/2013 4:14:38 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Triple

“Isn’t there a law (maybe FOIA) that says you are entitled to see all records the government is keeping on you? (if not under an active criminal investigation)”

Hey ! Ther’re about 320 mio. domestic terrorist suspects in the US. And they’re ALL under active criminal investigation. So what’s wrong with the gov not showing/notifying/confirming any of your records to you ?


26 posted on 07/20/2013 4:37:42 PM PDT by SgtBilko
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To: Slambat
So Bush set us up for Obama’s fundamental change? A co-connspirator? It’s sure starting to look that way.

FReepers were following this stuff from the start 10 years ago:

Total Information Awareness (TIA) System - Nov 25, 2002 (Free Republic)

EPIC.org Total Information Awareness (TIA) News Nov 25, 2002 (Free Republic)

Critics say Defense 'Total Information Awareness' Impractical - Dec 12, 2002 (Free Republic)

TOTAL INFORMATION AWARENESS (TIA) UPDATE - Feb 7, 2003 (Free Republic)

Pentagon spy database funding revealed (Total Information Awareness ) - Feb 27, 2003 (Free Republic)

Total Information Awareness Project Undergoes First Test - Apr 10, 2003 (Free Republic)

U.S. Pressing for High-Tech Spy Tools (Total Information Awareness) - Feb 22, 2004 (Free Republic)

U.S. Still Mining Terror Data (Total Information Awareness Program) - Feb 23, 2004 (Free Republic)

Total Information Awareness - Mar 8, 2007 (Free Republic)
27 posted on 07/20/2013 5:07:15 PM PDT by af_vet_rr
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To: TArcher

>>Isn’t there a law

Laws? Those are only for the little people.

of course. if you were say, Michael Bloomberg or mark zuckerberg and you hosted a fundraiser at your mansion for a politician, of course you expect something in return.
that’s the way this entire country is run right now.


28 posted on 07/20/2013 5:11:43 PM PDT by willywill
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To: SgtBilko

That sure is how the fedgov is playing it.


29 posted on 07/20/2013 6:05:17 PM PDT by Triple (Socialism denies people the right to the fruits of their labor, and is as abhorrent as slavery)
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To: willywill

>>that’s the way this entire country is run right now.

Oligarchic Kleptocracy.


30 posted on 07/20/2013 9:33:44 PM PDT by TArcher ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS, governments are instituted among men" -- Does that still work?)
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To: Slambat

The new world order Republicans are on the same team as the radical left.


31 posted on 07/21/2013 6:19:17 AM PDT by freedomfiter2 (Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
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To: jurroppi1

bump for later...


32 posted on 07/21/2013 6:51:40 AM PDT by jurroppi1
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To: freedomfiter2

It’s seems obvious to me that the republican party is
there to put up a false sense of opposition to the
overthrow of this country. The tide has never turned
and the march to socialization has moved steadily forward.
Anyone who is willing to compromise at all with the
socialist/democrat party on anything is in on it.


33 posted on 07/21/2013 8:18:50 AM PDT by Slambat
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To: Earthdweller

Ordered by WHOM? And with what AUTHORITY? I suspect that if more people asked to see the AUTHORIZATION for these requested acts, that more Fed.gov people would go home empty-handed.


34 posted on 07/21/2013 6:45:46 PM PDT by 2harddrive
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