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Vattel

(9,289 posts)
Wed Jun 11, 2014, 12:15 PM Jun 2014

NSA quiz question. True or false?

"If you are a US person, the NSA cannot listen to your telephone calls . . . unless they … go to a court, and obtain a warrant, and seek probable cause . . ."

Answer: false.

If you are a US person and you communicate with any foreign person who is a target of NSA surveillance, the NSA has the authority under the FISA Amendment Act to examine the content of the communication. We are not talking metadata here. We are talking content. The NSA does not need probable cause or an individualized warrant to listen to the calls, or read the emails, of foreign persons. If those foreign persons are communicating with US citizens, they still don't need an individualized warrant or probable cause.

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NSA quiz question. True or false? (Original Post) Vattel Jun 2014 OP
And they also examine the communications of persons two degrees removed from the target. Maedhros Jun 2014 #1
So in theory, someone from the NSA could call an international target... hughee99 Jun 2014 #2
 

Maedhros

(10,007 posts)
1. And they also examine the communications of persons two degrees removed from the target.
Wed Jun 11, 2014, 01:05 PM
Jun 2014

So, if a foreign person communications with you, they also look at whomever else you talk to, and then whomever else they talk to...

hughee99

(16,113 posts)
2. So in theory, someone from the NSA could call an international target...
Wed Jun 11, 2014, 01:23 PM
Jun 2014

then call someone they knew in the US they wanted to listen in on, and they've got their access without any kind of specific warrant.

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