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ACLU uncovers memos showing Obama admin.'s


Posted: Jul 27, 2017

The American Civil Liberties Union has uncovered memos that show the National Security Agency (NSA) and FBI “violated specific civil liberty protections during the Obama administration by improperly searching and disseminating raw intelligence on Americans or failing to promptly delete unauthorized intercepts,” as reported by The Hill on Tuesday. The memos, which The Hill was able to review, were obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by the ACLU. They cover compliance with privacy rules between 2009 and 2016. Equivalent assessments of the Trump administration’s first year will not be prepared until next spring. NSA spokesman Michael Halbig is quoted arguing that the 90-plus incidents documented by the memos represent a small fraction of the hundreds of thousands of phones and email addresses monitored under the FISA Section 702 warrantless surveillance program – an argument that may not be all that comforting to privacy advocates. Halbig also said the violations described by the memos are proof that the NSA’s compliance program is working. ;

And those 90 just happen to be in political - opposition to the sitting

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administration.

Hey, American Civil Liberties Union, when are you going to sue Obama, since YOU put yourselves as "the American civil liberties watchdog"??????

Don’t forget “It was the fault of a video.. . . .” along with “Not a smidgen of corruption . . . .”

Why did you wait so long?

Time to put up or shut up.

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