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June 07, 2013
Obama's NSA Tracking Credit Card Transactions, Also Has Access To Phone Records From AT&T And Sprint Along With Verizon
NSA Tracking Credit Card Transactions, Also Has Access To Phone Records From AT&T And Sprint Along With Verizon
he National Security Agency’s monitoring of Americans includes customer records from the three major phone networks as well as emails and Web searches, and the agency also has cataloged credit-card transactions, said people familiar with the agency’s activities.
The disclosure this week of an order by a secret U.S. court for Verizon Communications Inc.’s phone records set off the latest public discussion of the program. But people familiar with the NSA’s operations said the initiative also encompasses phone-call data from AT&T Inc. and Sprint Nextel Corp., records from Internet-service providers and purchase information from credit-card providers.
The agency is using its secret access to the communications of millions of Americans to target possible terrorists, said people familiar with the effort.
Civil-liberties advocates slammed the NSA’s actions. “The most recent surveillance program is breathtaking. It shows absolutely no effort to narrow or tailor the surveillance of citizens,” said Jonathan Turley, a constitutional law expert at George Washington University.
The arrangement with the country’s three largest phone companies means that every time the majority of Americans makes a call, NSA gets a record of the location, the number called, the time of the call and the length of the conversation, according to people familiar with the matter. The practice, which evolved out of warrantless wiretapping programs begun after 2001, is approved by all three branches of the U.S. government.
Wild Thing's comment................
Horrible, disgusting and against our freedom.
Posted by Wild Thing at June 7, 2013 12:55 AM
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Problem is there are both Democrats and Republicans justifying this.
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety...Benjamin Franklin
Posted by: BobF at June 7, 2013 07:35 AM
I understand how these tracking records can be (and have been)used to catch terrorists. This tracking can also be used by crooked politicians and wogs to violate honest citizens freedoms. Right now we have an extremely crooked administration and that makes this phone tracking a serious entity to worry about. Maybe, just maybe it will be enough though to topple the obama dictatorship.
Posted by: TomR,armed in Texas at June 7, 2013 11:42 AM
