Posted on 01/13/2017 1:11:55 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
With only days until Donald Trump takes office, the Obama administration on Thursday announced new rules that will let the NSA share vast amounts of private data gathered without warrant, court orders or congressional authorization with 16 other agencies, including the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Agency, and the Department of Homeland Security.
The new rules allow employees doing intelligence work for those agencies to sift through raw data collected under a broad, Reagan-era executive order that gives the NSA virtually unlimited authority to intercept communications abroad. Previously, NSA analysts would filter out information they deemed irrelevant and mask the names of innocent Americans before passing it along.
Executive Order 12333, often referred to as “twelve triple-three,” has attracted less debate than congressional wiretapping laws, but serves as authorization for the NSA’s most massive surveillance programs — far more than the NSA’s other programs combined. Under 12333, the NSA taps phone and internet backbones throughout the world, records the phone calls of entire countries, vacuums up traffic from Google and Yahoo’s data centers overseas, and more.
In 2014, The Intercept revealed that the NSA uses 12333 as a legal basis for an internal NSA search engine that spans more than 850 billion phone and internet records and contains the unfiltered private information of millions of Americans. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at theintercept.com ...
He still has way too much time to screw us some more.
Glad that I read the posts, before posting a reply, myself! I was about to post what you did.
Ok Its a few more days.
A taste of what cankles would have done.
You know the other side feels for Trump like we feel for cankles no matter how unwarranted.
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
Whatever he can do in this regard - PRESIDENT TRUMP can undo.
We used to call people like obamalamadingdong rat-b@st@rd$
Ed Snowden may not have been a hero yesterday, but Obama is gonna make damned sure he is by the time he leaves office.
The Terrorist in Chief has one week left to destroy America any way he can.
Obama is a traitor, completely ignoring any actual laws and doing as he pleased (himself). How such clear activity has become _political_ is well beneath my intelligence.
Enemies of the USConstitutional government, are enemies of us all. They use their positions to bring the force of arms against the actual American people. That is not political. That is an act of war. Waging war against The People and the Law we established hundreds of years ago.
I think Trump needs to prosecute the underlings who are carrying out these lame duck directives.
No “good German just carrying out orders” defense.
Just in case any spies missed any data the NSA had, he makes sure they got it all. Trump’s first act should be to arrest Obama.
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