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Hey Mr. President, tear down the veil of secrecy surrounding unmasked NSA intercepts

Posted by M. C. on May 5, 2017

http://circa.com/politics/circa-asks-president-trump-to-declassify-data-on-nsa-spying-on-americans

Circa has formally requested that the Trump administration declassify records showing how often government officials have searched National Security Agency intercepts for intelligence on U.S. presidential candidates, members of Congress, journalists, clergy, lawyers, federal judges and doctors and how often such Americans had their identities unmasked by the intelligence community after Barack Obama made it easier to do so in 2011.

The request follows anexclusive Circa report on Wednesday that revealed that the Obama administration conducted more than 35,000 searches on NSA intercepts seeking information about Americans during the divisive 2016 election year.
The American Civil Liberties Union and influential senators like Rand Paul, R-Ky., Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., have for years raised concerns about how often and why the U.S. government accesses surveillance data on Americans without getting a court warrant.
Betcha it doesn’t happen.

 

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