WHY ALL THE REDACTIOINS?? IS THE GOVERNMENT SO AFRAID AND TIMID ABOUT WHAT YOU MIGHT LEARN ABOUT THEM?? The Justice Department has released a newly declassified version of a May 2004 legal memo approving the National Security Agency’s Stellarwind program, a set of warrantless surveillance and data collection activities that President George W. Bush secretly authorized after the terrorist crime of Sept. 11, 2001. But questions about the program remain. A more heavily redacted version of the memo had been released in 2011 as part of Freedom of Information Act lawsuits by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Privacy Information Center. The new version includes previously censored references to the existence of the data collection related to Americans’ phone calls and emails.
Posted on: Sun, 07 Sep 2014 15:18:54 +0000
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