[Occupymendocino] can-justice-sotomayor-stop-the-nsa?

[Richard Karch]

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/06/can-justice-sotomayor-stop-the-nsa.html

JUNE 7, 2013
CAN JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR STOP THE N.S.A.?
POSTED BY LYNN OBERLANDER
The Verizon Business customers who learned, this week, that the company had given records of every call they made within and from the United States to the National Security Agency might also have been surprised to find out that, under current law, the government did not need a warrant (or probable cause) to access that information. The records are not considered private, and all the government needed was an order from the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Court. That might sound like a safeguard against government overreach, but the court approved all but one of the five thousand one hundred and eightyapplications submitted for surveillance and physical searches between 2010 and 2012. It is hardly what you would call a watchdog...
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