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New Justice Department Documents Show Huge Increase in Warrantless Electronic Surveillance
By Naomi Gilens, ACLU Speech, Privacy and Technology Project at 1:32pm
Justice Department documents released today by the ACLU reveal that federal law enforcement agencies are increasingly monitoring Americans’ electronic communications, and doing so without warrants, sufficient oversight, or meaningful accountability.

The documents, handed over by the government only after months of litigation, are the attorney general’s 2010 and 2011 reports on the use of “pen register” and “trap and trace” surveillance powers. The reports show a dramatic increase in the use of these surveillance tools, which are used to gather information about telephone, email, and other Internet communications. The revelations underscore the importance of regulating and overseeing the government’s surveillance power. (Our original Freedom of Information Act request and our legal complaint are online.)

Pen register and trap and trace devices are powerfully invasive surveillance tools that were, twenty years ago, physical devices that attached to telephone lines in order to covertly record the incoming and outgoing numbers dialed. Today, no special equipment is required to record this information, as interception capabilities are built into phone companies’ call-routing hardware.

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ORIGINAL: subrob1967

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New Justice Department Documents Show Huge Increase in Warrantless Electronic Surveillance
By Naomi Gilens, ACLU Speech, Privacy and Technology Project at 1:32pm
Justice Department documents released today by the ACLU reveal that federal law enforcement agencies are increasingly monitoring Americans’ electronic communications, and doing so without warrants, sufficient oversight, or meaningful accountability.

The documents, handed over by the government only after months of litigation, are the attorney general’s 2010 and 2011 reports on the use of “pen register” and “trap and trace” surveillance powers. The reports show a dramatic increase in the use of these surveillance tools, which are used to gather information about telephone, email, and other Internet communications. The revelations underscore the importance of regulating and overseeing the government’s surveillance power. (Our original Freedom of Information Act request and our legal complaint are online.)

Pen register and trap and trace devices are powerfully invasive surveillance tools that were, twenty years ago, physical devices that attached to telephone lines in order to covertly record the incoming and outgoing numbers dialed. Today, no special equipment is required to record this information, as interception capabilities are built into phone companies’ call-routing hardware.

What he really means is, AMERICAN privacy be transparent to his DoJ!



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ORIGINAL: mnottertail
Its gotta be pretty fuckin transparent if you know about it.

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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

You're gettin some. 

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ORIGINAL: joether
Its 'looking for evil terrorists' if Republicans do it, but 'invasion of big brother' when a Democrat do it. Got to chuckle at the lengths conservatives will go to paint the Republicans as honorable even against the over whelming tide of evidence that says otherwise.

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And, does pointing out Democrat hypocrisy automatically mean a conservative is being a hypocrite?

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ORIGINAL: graceadieu

Unfortunately, it does seem that once the government gets a chance to encroach on our civil liberties in some way, it's hard to get them to stop doing it of their own volition. The Republicans allowed this stuff to ramp up (to some extent it's always been going on, but more since the Patriot Act), and Obama allowed it to continue, and I'm sure if Romney wins he will too, and on and on forever.

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ORIGINAL: FMRFGOPGAL

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And, does pointing out Democrat hypocrisy automatically mean a conservative is being a hypocrite?

When it is revisionist and doesn't state up front how the ball got rolling it is. Mind you, I haven't seen enough dialogue from you to point a finger. But clearly the OP, if he is all he claims is well aware he is burying the bone in the back yard in order to stick it to a president he just plain doesn't like.
  Not well executed, but motive is clear.
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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic
got hoarse protesting them before Obama took over.
BTW..like you...we have the option of responding or not, in the negative or positive to any question we chooose, not because you think we should.
goose, meet gander

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ORIGINAL: DesideriScuri

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ORIGINAL: FMRFGOPGAL

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And, does pointing out Democrat hypocrisy automatically mean a conservative is being a hypocrite?

When it is revisionist and doesn't state up front how the ball got rolling it is. Mind you, I haven't seen enough dialogue from you to point a finger. But clearly the OP, if he is all he claims is well aware he is burying the bone in the back yard in order to stick it to a president he just plain doesn't like.
Not well executed, but motive is clear.
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Which part is revisionist?

Did Obama run on transparency? Yes.

Did Obama and the Democrats rail at Bush for the warrantless wiretaps? Yes.

Did the Democrats rail at Obama for the warrantless wiretaps? No.

How is it that when a Democrat bashes a Republican for something, and then does the same thing, if not more, that it's revisionist, and okay?