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Inside the obscure government report that blasts Obama for illegal NSA spying

27

Jan

2014

Illegal and unconstitutional: that’s what a sudden, blistering report from an obscure government committee has called the NSA’s phone-record database. The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board was conceived in the wake of 9/11, the event we’ve used to justify almost any level of surveillance. But on Thursday, it came out with perhaps the harshest […]

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Watchdog says NSA phone spying program is illegal and should end

23

Jan

2014

A report from the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) that should be released on Thursday says that the NSA’s phone spying program is illegal and should end, The Washington Post revealed. “We have not identified a single instance involving a threat to the United States in which the telephone records program made a […]

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NSA’s phone data collection program is illegal, says government watchdog

23

Jan

2014

The National Security Agencys collection of bulk phone records is illegal and should be stopped, according to a report by an independent federal privacy watchdog. The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board — made independent by Congress in 2007 — said the NSAs phone record collection program provided minimal benefits in counter-terrorism operations. The boards […]

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