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Originally Posted by Rochard
So far I have yet to read exactly what he's turned over, only very general descriptions of what he claims the government is doing. I have yet to see where the government was doing anything illegal.
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how would you know what they are doing is illegal or not? the justice department secretly intrepreted section 215 of the patriot act:::
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that the government has secretly interpreted a part of the Patriot Act in a way that they portray as twisted, allowing the Federal Bureau of Investigation to conduct some kind of unspecified domestic surveillance that does not dovetail with a plain reading of the statute.
The dispute has focused on Section 215 of the Patriot Act. It allows a secret national security court to issue an order allowing the F.B.I. to obtain ?any tangible things? in connection with a national security investigation. It is sometimes referred to as the ?business records? section because public discussion around it has centered on using it to obtain customer information like hotel or credit card records.
But in addition to that kind of collection, the senators contend that the government has also interpreted the provision, based on rulings by the secret national security court, as allowing some other kind of activity that allows the government to obtain private information about people who have no link to a terrorism or espionage case.
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