Posted on 05/04/2017 8:42:26 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The National Security Agency vacuumed up more than 151 million records about Americans’ phone calls last year via a new system that Congress created to end the agency’s once-secret program that collected domestic calling records in bulk, a report disclosed Tuesday.
The National Security Agency took in the 151 million records despite obtaining court orders to use the system on only 42 terrorism suspects in 2016, along with a few left over from late 2015, the report said.
According to the report, the National Security Agency distributed 3,914 reports last year containing information about Americans gathered via the warrantless surveillance program. Within those, 1,200 reports originally had unmasked identities, and the agency unmasked Americans’ identities in 1,934 reports in response to requests. By comparison, in 2015, 2,232 unmaskings were requested.
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Who made the requests and were any of the unmasked Americans' part of the Trump campaign?
Who has been charged for breaking this law? Who ordered this law to be ignored? Middle Class taxpayers are sick and tired of being the only ones required to obey the law in this country.
what terrorist attacks have they stopped?
I want their budget simply transferred to the wall.
I want them defunded and all of their money go to the wall.
Given our current population that would be one out of every two Americans. Nothing more than mass government surveillance of its citizens.
NSA’s open budget is around 10 billion. Snowden said it was around 50 billion off the books per year for surveillance and data collection in 2012, if I recall. They can’t even tell us how many work for the NSA, it is estimated between 30,000 and 40,000. The NSA is the largest employer in Maryland.
Freegards
Defund the NSA. We don’t need these creeps. Call them into the Senate and have them prove to us that they are using these to catch the bad guys. My guess is, no.
What a complete waste.
Almost all of them were.
But what does that have to do with anything???
Neither party cares.
NSA: Poster-child for an out-of-control agency that ought to be abolished.
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