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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsACLU Calls for End to Program, Disclosure of Program’s Scope, Congressional Investigation
Massive NSA Phone Data-Mining Operation Revealed
ACLU Calls for End to Program, Disclosure of Programs Scope, Congressional Investigation
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"Now that this unconstitutional surveillance effort has been revealed, the government should end it and disclose its full scope, and Congress should initiate a full investigation," said Michelle Richardson, legislative counsel with the ACLU Washington Legislative Office. "This disclosure also highlights the growing gap between the publics and the governments understandings of the many sweeping surveillance authorities enacted by Congress. Since 9/11, the government has increasingly classified and concealed not just facts, but the law itself. Such extreme secrecy is inconsistent with our democratic values of open government and accountability."
The first information about the governments use of Section 215 was made public in response to Freedom of Information Act litigation filed by the ACLU 10 years ago. More recently, members of Congress have warned that the government has secretly interpreted Section 215 in a way that would shock Americans. In 2012, Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Mark Udall (D-Colo.) wrote, When the American people find out how their government has secretly interpreted the Patriot Act, they are going to be stunned and they are going to be angry.
In May 2011, shortly before Section 215 was scheduled to expire, the ACLU filed a new FOIA request in an effort to learn more about the secret interpretation to which Sens. Wyden and Udall had referred. Congress reauthorized Section 215 without amendment until 2015, and for the last two years, the government has refused to describe its secret interpretation. Whether or not the program described by The Guardian reflects that secret interpretation, todays disclosure confirms that the government has interpreted Section 215 extraordinarily broadly.
This disclosure is likely to have significant implications for the ACLUs pending FOIA lawsuit. The Department of Justice is scheduled to file a brief in that case on June 13; the ACLUs response is due on June 28, and oral argument is scheduled for July 11 in the Southern District of New York.
http://www.aclu.org/national-security-technology-and-liberty/massive-nsa-phone-data-mining-operation-revealed
ACLU Calls for End to Program, Disclosure of Programs Scope, Congressional Investigation
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"Now that this unconstitutional surveillance effort has been revealed, the government should end it and disclose its full scope, and Congress should initiate a full investigation," said Michelle Richardson, legislative counsel with the ACLU Washington Legislative Office. "This disclosure also highlights the growing gap between the publics and the governments understandings of the many sweeping surveillance authorities enacted by Congress. Since 9/11, the government has increasingly classified and concealed not just facts, but the law itself. Such extreme secrecy is inconsistent with our democratic values of open government and accountability."
The first information about the governments use of Section 215 was made public in response to Freedom of Information Act litigation filed by the ACLU 10 years ago. More recently, members of Congress have warned that the government has secretly interpreted Section 215 in a way that would shock Americans. In 2012, Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Mark Udall (D-Colo.) wrote, When the American people find out how their government has secretly interpreted the Patriot Act, they are going to be stunned and they are going to be angry.
In May 2011, shortly before Section 215 was scheduled to expire, the ACLU filed a new FOIA request in an effort to learn more about the secret interpretation to which Sens. Wyden and Udall had referred. Congress reauthorized Section 215 without amendment until 2015, and for the last two years, the government has refused to describe its secret interpretation. Whether or not the program described by The Guardian reflects that secret interpretation, todays disclosure confirms that the government has interpreted Section 215 extraordinarily broadly.
This disclosure is likely to have significant implications for the ACLUs pending FOIA lawsuit. The Department of Justice is scheduled to file a brief in that case on June 13; the ACLUs response is due on June 28, and oral argument is scheduled for July 11 in the Southern District of New York.
http://www.aclu.org/national-security-technology-and-liberty/massive-nsa-phone-data-mining-operation-revealed
What You Should Know About The Governments Massive Domestic Surveillance Program
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ACLU Calls for End to Program, Disclosure of Program’s Scope, Congressional Investigation (Original Post)
ProSense
Jun 2013
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JEB
(4,748 posts)1. Once more, the ACLU is the poeple's last line of defence.
clarice
(5,504 posts)2. This whole thing is very disconcerting. nt