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In reply to the discussion: Don't entertain this garbage. [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)It is far too broad. It is available from a link in the original Greenwald article in the Guardian.
The program is clearly very broad. The subpoena ordered Verizon to collect a very broad range of information. The government should not be concerned about a range of information that broad. Snowden stated that his program was looking at all that information and sifting it and analyzing it. That is way more than was contemplated at the time the FISA legislation was written.
This is a shameful thing. There is no excuse. I trust that Obama, who is a decent person, will turn this around and return us to a country in which we don't have so much power vested in our executive. The court order I saw makes a joke of probable cause, the Fourth Amendment, due process (the right to notice and to be heard in a court) and FISA.