Safeguards Keeping The NSA From Spying On Americans Were Removed By The Obama Administration

Safeguards keeping the NSA from spying on Americans were removed by the Obama administration | The Verge According to a new report from The Washington Post, President Obama's administration sought to relax restrictions on National Security Agency surveillance in 2011, winning permission from a surveillance court to deliberately search for the intercepted phone calls and emails of citizens without a warrant. The court also reportedly extended the length of time that the NSA is permitted to store intercepted US communications to 6 years, up from 5, and even longer under "special circumstances." The 2011 decision overturns a 2008 ban on warrantless searches of the NSA's databases containing email and phone call records of American citizens and legal residents....read more