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    According to a breaking report from the UK Guardian, Barack Obama’s National Security Agency has been collecting phone records of millions of domestic customers of Verizon under a court order obtained in April. The order requires Verizon to turn over phone records on an “ongoing, daily basis” to the NSA, both within the US and between the US and international sources.

    The Guardian reports: “The document shows for the first time that under the Obama administration the communication records of millions of US citizens are being collected indiscriminately and in bulk – regardless of whether they are suspected of any wrongdoing.” The secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) handed over the order to the FBI on April 25, and gave them a three month blanket surveillance clearance. That means that numbers of both parties, location data, call duration, and time of all calls are subject to government surveillance. That makes the Obama administration’s oversight essentially unlimited.

    The NSA, White House and Department of Justice all declined comment. The court order says that Verizon is forbidden to let customers know about the surveillance. Verizon also declined comment.

    The order forces Verizon to turn over electronic versions of “all call detail records or ‘telephony metadata’ created by Verizon for communications between the United States and abroad” … or, more ominously, “wholly within the United States, including local telephone calls.” Every single day, Verizon must turn over that information.
    The Guardian says that Verizon may not be the only cell-phone provider targeted with the order, and adds that “previous reporting has suggested the NSA has collected cell records from all major mobile networks.”

    The law legalizing this sort of surveillance is 50 USC 1861, a provision of the Patriot Act allowing requests of business records.

    This sort of controversy arose in 2006 under President Bush under the auspices of the war on terror. President Obama essentially declared the war on terror over in April, at about the same point the administration received its blanket surveillance go-ahead from the FISA court.

    Ben Shapiro is Editor-At-Large of Breitbart News and author of the New York Times bestseller “Bullies: How the Left’s Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences

    According to a breaking report from the UK Guardian, Barack Obama's National Security Agency has been collecting phone records of millions of domestic |
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  • #2
    Welcome to Amerika

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    • #3
      I hope he likes my sexts and weiner pics!!!

      God bless.
      It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men -Frederick Douglass

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      • #4
        I'm sure these are all attached to the AP case, which makes this even worse. The carrier that works best in that area is Verizon, so that's what everyone has. Makes sense they'd do that.
        ZOMBIE REAGAN FOR PRESIDENT 2016!!! heh

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        • #5
          I guess my slow ass US cellular service isn't all that bad.
          "It's another burrito, it's a cold Lone Star in my hand!"

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          • #6
            I really doubt it is just Verizon.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by DallasSleeper View Post
              I really doubt it is just Verizon.
              x2
              Whos your Daddy?

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              • #8
                "If you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to fear."
                When the government pays, the government controls.

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                • #9
                  10 years ago 90% of the population would laugh at you and make tinfoil hat jokes if you even mentioned this being a possibility.

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                  • #10
                    Verizon lol if you really wanted to catch terrorist tap that damn vonage service

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by krazy kris View Post
                      Verizon lol if you really wanted to catch terrorist tap that damn vonage service
                      Those commercials are filled with innuendo and indians.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by DallasSleeper View Post
                        10 years ago 90% of the population would laugh at you and make tinfoil hat jokes if you even mentioned this being a possibility.
                        A lot of people didn't know about the patriot act, either. It's no surprise that they would say those things.

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                        • #13
                          This apparently extends well beyond the limits of the Patriot Act according to it's author.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by DallasSleeper View Post
                            Welcome to AmeriKKKa
                            ftfy
                            THE BAD HOMBRE

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                            • #15
                              “I don’t mind turning over my records”, Sen. Graham.

                              Sen. Graham (R-SC) renewed his committment to the destruction of constitutional principles, agreeing with Obama's policy to seize American's phone records.

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