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Obama intel agency secretly conducted illegal searches on Americans for years

The National Security Agency under former President Barack Obama routinely violated American privacy protections while scouring through overseas intercepts and failed to disclose the extent of the problems until the final days before Donald Trump was elected president last fall, according to once top-secret documents that chronicle some of the most serious constitutional abuses to date by the U.S. intelligence community.

More than 5 percent, or one out of every 20 searches seeking upstream Internet data on Americans inside the NSA’s so-called Section 702 database violated the safeguards Obama and his intelligence chiefs vowed to follow in 2011, according to one classified internal report reviewed by Circa.

The Obama administration self-disclosed the problems at a closed-door hearing Oct. 26 before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that set off alarm. Trump was elected less than two weeks later.

The normally supportive court excoriated administration officials, saying the failure to disclose the extent of the violations earlier amounted to a “institutional lack of candor” and that the improper searches constituted a “very serious Fourth Amendment issue,” according to a recently unsealed court document dated April 26, 2017.

The admitted violations undercut one of the primary defenses that the intelligence community and Obama officials have used in recent weeks to justify their snooping into incidental NSA intercepts about Americans.

Circa has reported that there was a three-fold increase in NSA data searches about Americans and a rise in the unmasking of U.S. person’s identities in intelligence reports after Obama loosened the privacy rules in 2011.

Officials like former National Security Adviser Susan Rice have argued their activities were legals under the so-called minimization rule changes Obama made and that the intelligence agencies were strictly monitored to avoid abuses.

The intelligence court and the NSA’s own internal watchdog found that not to be true...

Full article here

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ORIGINAL: BoscoX

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Obama intel agency secretly conducted illegal searches on Americans for years

The National Security Agency under former President Barack Obama routinely violated American privacy protections while scouring through overseas intercepts and failed to disclose the extent of the problems until the final days before Donald Trump was elected president last fall, according to once top-secret documents that chronicle some of the most serious constitutional abuses to date by the U.S. intelligence community.

More than 5 percent, or one out of every 20 searches seeking upstream Internet data on Americans inside the NSA’s so-called Section 702 database violated the safeguards Obama and his intelligence chiefs vowed to follow in 2011, according to one classified internal report reviewed by Circa.

The Obama administration self-disclosed the problems at a closed-door hearing Oct. 26 before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that set off alarm. Trump was elected less than two weeks later.

The normally supportive court excoriated administration officials, saying the failure to disclose the extent of the violations earlier amounted to a “institutional lack of candor” and that the improper searches constituted a “very serious Fourth Amendment issue,” according to a recently unsealed court document dated April 26, 2017.

The admitted violations undercut one of the primary defenses that the intelligence community and Obama officials have used in recent weeks to justify their snooping into incidental NSA intercepts about Americans.

Circa has reported that there was a three-fold increase in NSA data searches about Americans and a rise in the unmasking of U.S. person’s identities in intelligence reports after Obama loosened the privacy rules in 2011.

Officials like former National Security Adviser Susan Rice have argued their activities were legals under the so-called minimization rule changes Obama made and that the intelligence agencies were strictly monitored to avoid abuses.

The intelligence court and the NSA’s own internal watchdog found that not to be true...

Full article here

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ORIGINAL: MasterJaguar01

The Obama administration self-disclosed the problems at a closed-door hearing Oct. 26

So?

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ORIGINAL: BoscoX

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ORIGINAL: MasterJaguar01

The Obama administration self-disclosed the problems at a closed-door hearing Oct. 26

So?

Nothing to see here, because it's Obama?

Gather around boys and girls. Who wants to hear a true story?

Once upon a time, a long long time ago in a land not so far away, "liberals" used to care about things like presidents spying on American citizens...

Or did they really?

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ORIGINAL: MasterJaguar01

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ORIGINAL: BoscoX

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ORIGINAL: MasterJaguar01

The Obama administration self-disclosed the problems at a closed-door hearing Oct. 26

So?

Nothing to see here, because it's Obama?

Gather around boys and girls. Who wants to hear a true story?

Once upon a time, a long long time ago in a land not so far away, "liberals" used to care about things like presidents spying on American citizens...

Or did they really?

I have ZERO interest in what liberals care or don't care about. The NSA was abusing its authority given to it by the FISA court, and ADMITTED it.

Good for them!

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ORIGINAL: BoscoX

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ORIGINAL: MasterJaguar01

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ORIGINAL: BoscoX

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ORIGINAL: MasterJaguar01

The Obama administration self-disclosed the problems at a closed-door hearing Oct. 26

So?

Nothing to see here, because it's Obama?

Gather around boys and girls. Who wants to hear a true story?

Once upon a time, a long long time ago in a land not so far away, "liberals" used to care about things like presidents spying on American citizens...

Or did they really?

I have ZERO interest in what liberals care or don't care about. The NSA was abusing its authority given to it by the FISA court, and ADMITTED it.

Good for them!

At the very end of the Obama administration, after doing it for years

And you give them a pat on the head

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(As long as you realize it STARTED under Bush)

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ORIGINAL: Termyn8or

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(As long as you realize it STARTED under Bush)

As long as you remember that part of Obama's platform was to put a stop to it back in 2008. Of course people can't remember that far back.

T^T

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ORIGINAL: Termyn8or

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(As long as you realize it STARTED under Bush)

As long as you remember that part of Obama's platform was to put a stop to it back in 2008. Of course people can't remember that far back.

T^T

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ORIGINAL: BoscoX

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ORIGINAL: MasterJaguar01

The Obama administration self-disclosed the problems at a closed-door hearing Oct. 26

So?

Nothing to see here, because it's Obama?

Gather around boys and girls. Who wants to hear a true story?

Once upon a time, a long long time ago in a land not so far away, "liberals" used to care about things like presidents spying on American citizens...

Or did they really?

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ORIGINAL: BoscoX

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ORIGINAL: Termyn8or

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(As long as you realize it STARTED under Bush)

As long as you remember that part of Obama's platform was to put a stop to it back in 2008. Of course people can't remember that far back.

T^T

They were insane about it, whipped up into a mob mentality

And Obama was going to be their savior from "Bushitler" and "Darth Cheney"

Just like they are doing with the Russia lie now

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ORIGINAL: Termyn8or

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(As long as you realize it STARTED under Bush)

As long as you remember that part of Obama's platform was to put a stop to it back in 2008. Of course people can't remember that far back.

T^T