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One of the Most Controversial US Spy Programs Just Got Quietly Renewed::Congress blew a rare bipartisan chance to protect Americans’ calls and texts.
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Why don’t they just tell us what the program is in the headline?
This is clickbait shit.
Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence and Surveillance Act (FISA)
Under Section 702 of FISA, federal investigators do not need a warrant to tap the phone calls, texts, and emails of foreigners outside of the country. But a loophole also lets them access messages that Americans exchange with targets abroad.
Is it a loophole? Anything sent to the foreign target regardless of origin is a message they received and will be captured, surely.
If an American texts “it’s terrierism time” to someone being tapped, how much of an expectation of privacy would there be.
“loophole” is a link in the article to https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/12/one-of-the-most-controversial-us-spy-programs-just-got-quietly-renewed/
As I understand it, there’s really two loopholes. One is that they can scoop communications in either direction from the particular communication in question, so could be American to American or foreign to foreign. The other loophe is all of this is put into a database that other agencies can access without a warrant, meaning your domestic communications are freely available.
They’re covering their eyes but peeking between their fingers.
And if you think that’s all they do with that capability I’ve got a bridge to sell ya
Snowden says all this has never lead to them preventing and stop a terrorist attack. Wonder if that’s still true. If so, why tf would they renew this program?
