The Obama administration secretly won permission from a surveillance court in 2011 to reverse restrictions on the National Security Agency’s use of intercepted phone calls and e-mails, permitting the agency to search deliberately for Americans’ communications in its massive databases, according to interviews with government officials and recently declassified material.
In addition, the court extended the length of time that the NSA is allowed to retain intercepted U.S. communications from five years to six years — and more under special circumstances, according to the documents, which include a recently released 2011 opinion by U.S. District Judge John D. Bates, then chief judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
What had not been previously acknowledged is that the court in 2008 imposed an explicit ban — at the government’s request — on those kinds of searches, that officials in 2011 got the court to lift the bar and that the search authority has been used.For you low information voters out there, as for the limitations from intrusion and privacy protections put in place by the government in 2008, then removed in 2011, it works out this way. Bush corralled the NSA and Obama let it loose.
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| Bill & Barack at Andrews |
In related news, Fort Meade, host to NSA, risked offending the commander in chief by closing down its golf courses to accommodate a $3.2 billion building project to house burgeoning spy bureaus. However, Fort Belvoir and Andrews Air Force Base golf courses remain open to serve him whenever needed.
Andrews says it well.
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