Remember the 1970’s?<\/p>\n
When society got so skeeved out by domestic spying by the CIA, and abuse of the FBI, and the Church Commission reformed the way the government intelligence was supposed to act around Americans?<\/p>\n
Either did the Obama Administration<\/a>:<\/p>\n A report from journalists John Solomon and Sara Carter last week,\u00a0based on\u00a0recently declassified documents<\/a>, exposed what went on. As Solomon and Carter write:<\/p>\n More than 5%, or one out of every 20,\u00a0searches\u00a0seeking upstream Internet data on Americans inside the NSA\u2019s so-called Section 702 database\u00a0violated the safeguards President Obama and his intelligence chiefs vowed to follow in 2011, according to one classified internal report reviewed by\u00a0Circa<\/em>. …<\/p>\n The normally supportive court censured administration officials, saying that the failure to disclose the extent of the violations earlier amounted to an \u201cinstitutional lack of candor<\/a>,\u201d and that the improper searches constituted a \u201cvery serious Fourth Amendment issue,\u201d according to a recently unsealed court document dated April 26.<\/p>\n The admitted violations undercut one of the primary defenses that the intelligence community and Obama officials have used in recent weeks to justify their snooping into incidental NSA intercepts about Americans. …\u00a0 The American Civil Liberties Union said the newly disclosed violations are some of the most serious to ever be documented and strongly call into question the U.S. intelligence community\u2019s ability to police itself and safeguard Americans’ privacy as guaranteed by the Constitution\u2019s Fourth Amendment protections against unlawful search and seizure.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n
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