Here’s a story that seemed to get lost today among extensive coverage of the pope frowning during President Trump’s visit.
This seems newsworthy: friendly FISA court sounds alarm about Obama spying practices, 4th amendment violations, https://t.co/gvO3fU2lDQ
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) May 24, 2017
I saw it this morning and have been waiting on confirmation as no other site seems to be reporting it.
— Physics Geek (@physicsgeek) May 24, 2017
Indeed. But ACLU quote in the piece I linked.
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) May 24, 2017
This could be a trick question, but in no way should it be.
Can you share best examples of news stories covering FISA court condemning Obama admin for illegal spying on US citizens?
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) May 24, 2017
https://twitter.com/LilMissRightie/status/867524681032773633
They covered it on @foxandfriends with @RandPaul this morning. But not enough so far
— Doug Stafford (@dougstafford) May 24, 2017
So what is the story? Circa was one of the few sources to have an extensive write-up of the NSA performing illegal searches on American citizens for years under the Obama administration.
Obama intel agency secretly conducted illegal searches on Americans for yearshttps://t.co/B1w0oGQ3e9 pic.twitter.com/jfMRTAb6yl
— The National Desk (@TND) May 24, 2017
John Solomon and Sara Carter report:
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.
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In question is the collection of what is known as upstream “about data” about an American that is collected even though they were not directly in contact with a foreigner that the NSA was legally allowed to intercept.
The story hits just about all of the checkmarks in 2017 to make it a bombshell. On Fox & Friends Wednesday morning, Sen. Rand Paul said if the reports were true, it would constitute “an enormous abuse of power,” adding, “This will dwarf all other stories.”
Well, he had the first part right.
https://twitter.com/kwilli1046/status/867398548438081536
This deserves much more attention than it's probably going to get. Non-partisan attention, too. Not related to Trump or Russia or Obama, etc
— Egon Alter (@AlterEgon75) May 24, 2017
It's as bad as it seems.
— ᴰᵒᵘᵍˡᵃˢ (@DouglasShrugged) May 24, 2017
https://twitter.com/winningatmylife/status/867464015781474304
Sen. Rand Paul tried to tell us this is what would happen with surveillance..
— Popcorn?????? (@MikeLaurence8) May 25, 2017
https://twitter.com/jpaulellis/status/867529966203752450
exactly
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) May 25, 2017
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