NSA collecting call logs of millions of Verizon customers -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top news: The National Security Agency is collecting business call logs involving millions of Americans under a secret warrant from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, the Guardian reported Wednesday. The court order, which falls under a section of the Patriot Act, requires Verizon Business Network Services, a subsidiary of Verizon Communications, to turn over all call records -- both foreign and domestic -- on a daily basis. The content of the calls is not covered under the warrant. The revelation raises questions about the scope of the U.S. domestic surveillance program and would seem to confirm the cryptic warnings of Sens. Mark Udall (D-CO) and Ron Wyden (D-OR), both members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, about the use of "secret legal interpretations" to justify sweeping surveillance powers. In a letter to the attorney general last year, the senators wrote, "We believe most Americans would be stunned to learn the details of .?.?these secret court opinions. As we see it, there is now a significant gap between what most Americans think the law allows and what the government secretly claims the law allows."
Posted on: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 13:52:40 +0000
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