Obama administration had restrictions on NSA reversed in 2011

The Washington Post ^ | Ellen Nakashima

[originalbuckeye]

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, according to the documents, which include a recently released 2011 opinion by U.S. District Judge John D. Bates, then chief judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.

[slowhandluke]

"But of course, those who wrote the Patriot Act are Republicans"

Passed by Republicans maybe, but the text of that Act had been sitting on the shelves for some time waiting for an appropriate crisis. It was written by the permanent bureaucracy, and vetted by both Clinton and Bush appointees in turn. It's just another clue as to the unity of thought of the national Republicans and Democrats.

[quimby]

That is why it is important to require a warrant before searching for Americans’ data, Udall said. “Our founders laid out a roadmap where Americans’ privacy rights are protected before their communications are seized or searched — not after the fact,” he said in a statement to The Post.

why only 2 dems cared about this ?

[quimby]

Wag the dog. Syria is a cover up for Benghazi. And Snowden is a cover up for what Obama did with the NSA and IRS to steal the 2012 election.

Right you are.

[Jack Hydrazine]

All they had to do was read, “1984.”

[Jack Hydrazine]

Do you think when he was a boy anyone addressed him as Master...oh, nevermind!

[Hoodat]

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 —

. . . which would carry it from that point through the 2016 election.

[devolve]

- The latest BS from SoS John F Kerry:

"WE will not leave anyone behind!"


(Benghazi happened long ago and far away and they were white anyway!)

[little jeremiah]

Nully - are you around? I think I read you mention something about computer problems...

Nutjob list.

[little jeremiah]

We have a dictator and tyrant in the White House. Any Congressmen who don’t support impeachment need removal also.

Yes.

[null and void]

Yes. My iMac finally ate its hard drive.

I’m reduced to trying to run on a windoze laptop. I’ve lost everything since July 10th, not a disaster, but quite annoying.

Trying to get caught up, recover ping lists, update this that and the other software so I can do thing like, oh, I dunno, actually see a video...

[null and void]

Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!

To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don’t add you to the list...

NOTE!!! I have lost my hard drive, if you joined this list after 7/10/13 please remind me to get back on. All changes after then have gone away, including, sadly, some nifty graphics. *sigh*

[VerySadAmerican]

Yet he’d still get re-elected today with just a little bit of fraud in four states. Most of his followers simply will not admit they were wrong. The rest don’t think they ARE wrong.

[NormsRevenge]

The Constitution is irrelevant to Obama.

Even many of his own diehard supporters now see him for what he is..

a Clear and Pres__ent Danger to Us All.

[SpottedBeaver]

It looks like I may have been dropped from you ping list. Please add me back.

... Or do I have to threaten you again?

[hummingbird]

Not the hard drive! Arghhhhhhhhhh............

I don't know when I signed up, so if you don't have me down, I'd still like to be on the "Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!"

hummingbird

[null and void]

One threat suffices, you are back on.

[null and void]

Yeah, the hard drive. You are back on the list.

[BykrBayb]

Every time you add or remove someone, send yourself a freepmail with the updated list.

[Roses0508]

BUMP

[shego]

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, that officials in 2011 got the court to lift the bar and that the search authority has been used.

2008... 2008... who's that guy who was in charge in 2008, again...?