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Report: Verizon providing all call records to U.S. under court order
WaPo.com ^ | 6/5/2013 | Ellen Nakashima

Posted on 06/05/2013 8:30:28 PM PDT by South40

The National Security Agency appears to be collecting the telephone records of tens of millions of American customers of Verizon, one of the nation’s largest phone companies, under a top-secret court order issued in April.

The order appears to require a Verizon subsidiary to provide the NSA with daily information on all telephone calls by its customers within the United States and from foreign locations into the United States.

The order, which was signed by a judge from the secret court that oversees domestic surveillance, was first reported on the Web site of the Guardian newspaper. The Web site reproduced a copy of the order, which two former U.S. officials told The Washington Post appears to be authentic.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


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liberals won't care.
1 posted on 06/05/2013 8:30:28 PM PDT by South40
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To: South40

Nope...to them, this is S.O.P. and A-OK


2 posted on 06/05/2013 8:32:44 PM PDT by soozla
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To: South40

Where’s ACLU, Electronic Frontiers Foundation, etc.?


3 posted on 06/05/2013 8:33:30 PM PDT by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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To: South40

Secret court??


4 posted on 06/05/2013 8:35:00 PM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: South40

This brings a whole new meaning to “Can you hear me now?”


5 posted on 06/05/2013 8:37:14 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Steely Tom
Good point.

ACLU lawyers are preparing their case now. /s

6 posted on 06/05/2013 8:37:15 PM PDT by South40
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What the eff country is this again? Not sure where I am.


7 posted on 06/05/2013 8:37:45 PM PDT by Ferris (Man will come to learn that galaxies are consciousness factories)
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To: 2nd amendment mama

Ping!


8 posted on 06/05/2013 8:39:32 PM PDT by basil (basil --Second Amendment Sisters.org)
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To: South40

What percentage of those calls collected are right leaning callers? 99.99999999% or 99.999999%?


9 posted on 06/05/2013 8:40:32 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Someday our schools will teach the difference between "lose" and "loose")
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To: South40

I pity any person who has to listen in on my phone calls—he will be bored out of his skull.............

We’re so screwed.


10 posted on 06/05/2013 8:40:40 PM PDT by basil (basil --Second Amendment Sisters.org)
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To: South40
An expert in this aspect of the law said Wednesday night that the order appears to be a routine renewal of a similar order first issued by the same court in 2006.

Bush was the enabler here. Not that Zero wouldn't do this on his own. Instead of spying on Americans and frisking us at airports, we needed to seal our borders and get these Muzzie creeps out of the country, for which a bounty system is ideally suited.

FUGWB

11 posted on 06/05/2013 8:42:36 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (An economy is not a zero-sum game, but politics usually is.)
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To: basil

“I pity any person who has to listen in on my phone calls—he will be bored out of his skull.............”

They may or may not listen to your calls. But guaranteed they will use this to take away more freedoms, harass conservatives, monitor “tea party” conversations, etc.


12 posted on 06/05/2013 8:45:51 PM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears (The Buck Stops Over There.)
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To: Ferris

“What the eff country is this again? Not sure where I am.”

Vell, ve vill find out vere you are, und ven ve do you had better haff your papers in order!!!/s;)


13 posted on 06/05/2013 8:50:06 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

I’m thinking they are building blocks for declaring marshal law. Brick by brick.


14 posted on 06/05/2013 8:50:59 PM PDT by Conservative4Ever (I'm going Galt)
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To: South40

15 posted on 06/05/2013 8:51:50 PM PDT by icwhatudo (Low taxes and less spending in Sodom and Gomorrah is not my idea of a conservative victory)
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To: Frank_2001

The critical question is “Why would they do that?”


16 posted on 06/05/2013 8:52:09 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Carry_Okie

” Bush was the enabler here. Not that Zero wouldn’t do this on his own.”

Bush had two wars. Obama says those are over. Why does he need this in peacetime?


17 posted on 06/05/2013 8:53:09 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (President Obma; The Slumlord of the Rentseekers)
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, Ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

http://www.nachumlist.com/


18 posted on 06/05/2013 8:53:51 PM PDT by Nachum (The Obama "List" at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: South40

So it turns our everyone with Verizon service has been using an Obama Phone.


19 posted on 06/05/2013 8:54:44 PM PDT by Nachum (The Obama "List" at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: jsanders2001

Or rather “why do the Feds want what is considered private information without probable cause or indications that a crime has been committed?” otherwise they are just fishing...


20 posted on 06/05/2013 8:54:44 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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