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lovuian

(19,362 posts) Tue Dec 24, 2013, 09:11 PM Dec 2013

Clapper reveals Bush-era docs showing NSA spying dragnet started 2001

Obama’s Director for National Intelligence, James Clapper, has declassified new documents that reveal how the NSA was first given the green light to start collecting bulk communication data in the hunt for Al-Qaeda terrorists after 9/11.

President Barack Obama’s administration has for the first time publicly confirmed "the existence of collection activities authorized by President George W. Bush," such as bulk amounts of Internet and phone metadata, as part of the "Terrorist Surveillance Program" (TSP).

It was about taking control of the country using 911 as an excuse to pass the Patriot Act taking away our freedoms

Isn't the Patriot Act still in force today or did Obama and Congress get rid of it?

I can't remember

http://rt.com/usa/bush-nsa-spying-clapper-632/

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Clapper reveals Bush-era docs showing NSA spying dragnet started 2001 (Original Post) lovuian Dec 2013 OP

Still in effect. As are the FISA Act Amendments dballance Dec 2013 #1

You would think its about time lovuian Dec 2013 #2

Sure it did. OnyxCollie Dec 2013 #3

+1. pacalo Dec 2013 #4

k & r! nt wildbilln864 Dec 2013 #5

dballance

(5,756 posts)

1. Still in effect. As are the FISA Act Amendments

Reply to lovuian (Original post)

Tue Dec 24, 2013, 09:19 PM

Dec 2013

And the authorization of use of military force. All of the should be repealed.

lovuian

(19,362 posts)

2. You would think its about time

Reply to dballance (Reply #1)

Tue Dec 24, 2013, 09:21 PM

Dec 2013

lets see this is almost 2014 and these were enacted in 2001

thats 13 years

and still going...after 50 years will we ever remember how the Constitution looked before 2001?