Decus
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that the massive spying that took place under the Obama administration; against U.S. citizens, was illegal and very likely unconstitutional. How could a "Constitutional scholar" like Obama allow this to happen?:
"In a ruling handed down on Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said the warrantless telephone dragnet that secretly collected millions of Americans’ telephone records violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and may well have been unconstitutional."
U.S. court: Mass surveillance program exposed by Snowden was illegal
Seven years after former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the mass surveillance of Americans' telephone records, an appeals court has found the program was unlawful - and that the U.S. intelligence leaders who publicly defended it were...www.reuters.comAppeals court finds NSA's bulk phone data collection was unlawful
Edward Snowden, who revealed the program in 2013, says he feels vindicated.www.cnet.comAppeals court rules NSA’s bulk phone data collection illegal
A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that the National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance program that collected data on Americans’ telephone calls was illegal and possibly unconstitutiona…thehill.comUS court rules NSA surveillance program was illegal – DW – 09/03/2020
A federal court has ruled that the US intelligence’s surveillance program exposed by whistleblower Edward Snowden was unlawful, and possibly unconstitutional.www.dw.comNSA mass surveillance program exposed by Edward Snowden was illegal, U.S. court rules
Snowden, who fled to Russia in the aftermath of the 2013 disclosures and still faces U.S. espionage charges, said on Twitter that the ruling was a vindicationnationalpost.com
Funny but I couldn't find this on CNN.
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Federal appeals court finds NSA phone metadata program illegal
A federal appeals court ruled on Wednesday that a National Security Agency program that collected the metadata from billions of phone calls made by Americans was illegal and possibly unconstitutional despite upholding the conviction of four Somali immigrants charged in a terror-fundraising case...www.foxnews.com
Well, let's see. In the name of national security. This program started in the wake of 9/11 and if my admittedly hazy memory serves me, GWB was President (memba the Patriot Act?).
From The Hill article. So it continued? Are you surprised?...or is your righteous indignation reserved for just for Obama?
"The metadata collection program was created and approved by the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court after the passage of the Patriot Act in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks".
Obama had a history of spying. Sadly this is often overlooked when discussing his reputation and the weight given to his opinion in present matters.
I believe that Snowden did the right thing in revealing the abusive and illegal spying. Not a very popular position with people on the right. I also never had a kind word to say about presidents Bush or Clinton.
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