The Washington Post ^ | Ellen
Nakashima
The
Obama administration secretly won permission from a
surveillance court in 2011 to reverse restrictions on the National Security
Agency’s use of intercepted phone calls and e-mails, permitting the agency to
search deliberately for Americans’ communications in its massive databases,
according to interviews with government officials and recently declassified
material.
In
addition, the court extended the length of time that the NSA is allowed to
retain intercepted U.S. communications from five years to six years — and more
under special circumstances, according to the documents, which include a
recently released 2011 opinion by U.S. District Judge John D. Bates, then chief
judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
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The first 4 years of Obama, everything bad was blamed on GWB. The NSA
spying has been blamed on GWB. The authors of the Patriot Act have said this
overwhelming surveillance was not what the Patriot Act intended. But of course,
those who wrote the Patriot Act are Republicans so they will ALWAYS be blamed
for everything bad in most of the Media. Amazing the WaPo has told the truth.
But the Obamabots STILL will not hold their Messssssiah
accountable.
