DEA Manuals Show Feds Use NSA Spy Data, Train Cops to Construct False Chains of Evidence

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179. Baloney. Verizon, of which I am an American customer, has been handing over metadata to the NSA

of American citizens. I can reasonably assume that my information is in an NSA database somewhere although I am an American citizen. An intelligence agency that is supposed to be spying on foreigners is spying on Americans.

On a conference call with reporters in August, a senior U.S. intelligence official spoke in blunt terms about the cooperation of the telecom giants with the NSA surveillance programs. “The telecommunications companies are ordered to comply with this,” the official said. “That’s their role in this. As in a wide variety of other contexts, they get served with an order and they comply with the court’s order.” The official declined to either confirm or deny whether any of the telecommunications companies had ever objected to participating in the programs.

In another NSA program, authorized by the USA PATRIOT Act, the telecom giants work with the government to provide access to the phone records of tens of millions of U.S. citizens, including the number called, when the call was made, and the length of the conversation. Among the documents that Snowden leaked was a top-secret court order issued by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) — a secret court made up of 11 federal judges appointed by U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts — which requires Verizon to provide the NSA on an “ongoing, daily basis” with this so-called “metadata” on all phone calls made by its U.S. customers.



Read more: Verizon, AT&T Challenged on NSA Spying | TIME.com http://business.time.com/2013/11/21/verizon-att-challenged-on-nsa-spying/#ixzz2tjkpakSv

The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America's largest telecoms providers, under a top secret court order issued in April.

The order, a copy of which has been obtained by the Guardian, requires Verizon on an "ongoing, daily basis" to give the NSA information on all telephone calls in its systems, both within the US and between the US and other countries.

The document shows for the first time that under the Obama administration the communication records of millions of US citizens are being collected indiscriminately and in bulk – regardless of whether they are suspected of any wrongdoing.

The secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (Fisa) granted the order to the FBI on April 25, giving the government unlimited authority to obtain the data for a specified three-month period ending on July 19.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/nsa-phone-records-verizon-court-order