Monday, August 26, 2013

EXCERPT FROM ARTICLE SHOWING NSA LYING TO FISA COURT

FROM THE NATIONAL


OBAMA ADMINISTRATION ORDERED TO STOP SPYING ON AMERICANS

In an 85-page declassified FISA court ruling from October 2011, US District Judge James D Bates rebuked government lawyers for repeatedly misrepresenting the operations of the NSA's surveillance programs.
Mr Bates wrote that the NSA had advised the court that "the volume and nature of the information it had been collecting is fundamentally different than what the court had been led to believe", and went on to say the court must consider "whether targeting and minimisation procedures comport with the Fourth Amendment" prohibition against unreasonable search and seizure.
"This court is troubled that the government's revelations regarding NSA's acquisition of internet transactions mark the third instance in less than three years in which the government has disclosed a substantial misrepresentation regarding the scope of a major collection programme," Mr Bates added in a footnoted passage that had portions heavily blacked out.
Mr Bates also complained that the government's submissions make clear that the NSA was gathering internet data years before it was authorised by the USA Patriot Act's Section 702 in 2008.


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