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For years intelligence agencies complained about the FISA courts restrictions (pre9-11 and Patriot act), that were put in place after Watergate by Church committee (pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/homefront/preemption/churchfisa.html) Now they abuse the intent of Patriot Act For years, members of Congress ignored evidence that domestic intelligence-gathering had grown beyond their control, and, even now, few seem disturbed to learn that every detail about the public’s calling and texting habits now reside in a N.S.A. database. Representative Jim Sensenbrenner, a Republican of Wisconsin, wrote a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. last week, saying that, as the author of the Patriot Act, he didn’t believe that the collection of phone records was consistent with his interpretation of the law. But, over the years, Mr. Sensenbrenner has been repeatedly warned by critics that the law was so broad that it was subject to precisely this kind of abuse.
Posted on: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 12:39:22 +0000

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