US Can't Access NSA Phone Records In California Terror Case
Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. government's ability to review and analyze five years' worth of telephone records for the married couple blamed in the deadly shootings in California lapsed just four days earlier when the National Security Agency's controversial mass surveillance program was formally shut down.
Under a court order, those historical calling records at the NSA are now off-limits to agents running the FBI terrorism investigation even with a warrant.
Instead, under the new USA Freedom Act, authorities were able to obtain roughly two years' worth of calling records directly from the phone companies of the married couple blamed in the attack. The period covered the entire time that the wife, Tashfeen Malik, lived in the United States, although her husband, Syed Farook, had been here much longer. She moved from Pakistan to the U.S. in July 2014 and married Farook the following month. He was born in Chicago in 1987 and raised in southern California.
FBI Director James Comey declined to say Friday whether the NSA program's shutdown affected the government's terrorism investigation in California.
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cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)uhnope
(6,419 posts)Purveyor
(29,876 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)But probably visa residents and any American citizens associated with the visa residents sponsorship should agree as a term of visa conditions to have all gun/ammo purchases monitored by the FBI.
OakCliffDem
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Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)They're obviously going to try and use this incident to re-enact that piece of shit legislation again. You watch.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]"Everybody is just on their feet screaming 'Kill Kill Kill'! This is -hockey- Conservative values!"[/center][/font][hr]
reddread
(6,896 posts)are you with the terrists or agin em?
elias49
(4,259 posts)If the truth be told, if they want them, they'll get them.
The way the headline is written suggests that the NSA has records that Justice can't have.
PSPS
(13,600 posts)The only reason they "can't" would be because the records don't exist. The "NSA program's shutdown" being referred to did not stop the gathering of the records. It only affects who retains them and puts limits on who can access them and why (i.e., a warrant is required,) which is exactly as it must be. The story is written to attack the whole notion of the 5th amendment. The author must be a NSA/GOP plant or sympathizer.
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)You know, old school police work.
philosslayer
(3,076 posts)Inaccessible even WITH a warrant.
kickysnana
(3,908 posts)reddread
(6,896 posts)people eat this stuff up.
unreal.
librechik
(30,674 posts)they got all the records they wanted or needed.
Fuck the NSA
I'm sick of seeing this duplicitous headline.
Have a nice day!
