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Saturday, July 20, 2013
FISA court renews NSA surveillance program
The Obama administration has renewed the authority for the National
Security Agency to regularly collect the phone records of millions of
Americas as allowed under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.The United States government has reportedly asked the FISA court every 90 days since 2006 to renew an order that compels the nation’s telecommunication providers to hand over telephony metadata pertaining to millions of US citizens. The program has been conducted in near total secrecy, however, until NSA leaker Edward Snowden released top-secret documentation to the Guardian newspaper which caused an international backlash upon being published last month.
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