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Offline thundley4

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Domestic Surveillance Court Approved All 1,506 Warrant Applications in 2010
« on: May 08, 2011, 10:34:02 PM »
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The secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court approved all 1,506 government requests to electronically monitor suspected “agents” of a foreign power or terrorists on U.S. soil last year, according to a Justice Department report released under the Freedom of Information Act.

The two-page report, which shows about a 13 percent increase in the number of applications for electronic surveillance between 2009 and 2010, was obtained by the Federation of American Scientists and published Friday.

“The FISC did not deny any applications in whole, or in part,” according to the April 19 report to Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada).

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The Justice Department report, meanwhile, said the FBI issued 24,287 “national security letter” requests last year on 14,212 people, “a substantial increase from the 2009 level of 14,788 NSL requests concerning 6,114 U.S. persons,” Aftergood wrote in a blog post. In 2008, there were 24,744 requests regarding 7,225 people.

National security letters are written demands from the FBI that compel internet service providers, credit companies, financial institutions and others to hand over confidential records about their customers, such as subscriber information, phone numbers and e-mail addresses, websites visited and more.
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I seem to remember hearing that quite a few were denied under President Bush.

Those national security letters are a scary thought too, especially considering how politicized the DOiJ has been under Obama.
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Re: Domestic Surveillance Court Approved All 1,506 Warrant Applications in 2010
« Reply #1 on: May 09, 2011, 12:30:56 AM »
"DOiJ" Damn straight, thundley! ^5. I am not laughing though. There isn't at all anything funny about this shit.
If we don't start turning this tyranny around then sooner than later we won't be able too.
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Re: Domestic Surveillance Court Approved All 1,506 Warrant Applications in 2010
« Reply #2 on: May 09, 2011, 09:09:15 AM »
Quote from: FreeBorn on May 09, 2011, 12:30:56 AM
"DOiJ" Damn straight, thundley! ^5. I am not laughing though. There isn't at all anything funny about this shit.
If we don't start turning this tyranny around then sooner than later we won't be able too.

Trying to make the list, eh?

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Re: Domestic Surveillance Court Approved All 1,506 Warrant Applications in 2010
« Reply #3 on: May 09, 2011, 10:06:26 AM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on May 09, 2011, 09:09:15 AM
Trying to make the list, eh?

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Hey, I thought everyone here was already on "The List"?

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Re: Domestic Surveillance Court Approved All 1,506 Warrant Applications in 2010
« Reply #4 on: May 09, 2011, 02:21:12 PM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on May 09, 2011, 10:06:26 AM
Hey, I thought everyone here was already on "The List"?



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Re: Domestic Surveillance Court Approved All 1,506 Warrant Applications in 2010
« Reply #5 on: May 09, 2011, 02:29:25 PM »
Quote from: DefiantSix on May 09, 2011, 02:21:12 PM
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