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[ NNSquad ] Washington Post on newly declassified FISA opinion
Washington Post on newly declassified FISA opinion http://j.mp/15arS7F (Washington Post) "The National Security Agency unlawfully gathered as many as tens of thousands of e-mails and other electronic communications between Americans as part of a now-discontinued collection program, according to a 2011 secret court opinion. The 86-page opinion, which was declassified by U.S. intelligence officials Wednesday, explains why the chief judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ruled the collection method unconstitutional ... But in practice, the NSA was unable to filter out the communications between Americans ... Officials stressed that it was the NSA that brought the collection method to the court's attention as part of its regular reporting process." - - - The actual numbers are quite interesting, since they indicate that across the entire program, incorrectly gathered emails/comms numbered well less than 200/day on average. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ nnsquad mailing list http://lists.nnsquad.org/mailman/listinfo/nnsquad