The US Secretly Expanded Domestic Spying While Praising Transparency
Without public notice or debate, the Obama administration has expanded the National Security Agency’s warrantless surveillance of Americans’ international Internet traffic to search for evidence of malicious computer hacking, according to classified NSA documents. In mid-2012, Justice Department lawyers wrote two secret memos permitting the spy agency to begin hunting on Internet cables, without a…
Privacy & Security
Julia Angwin and Jeff Larson, ProPublica, Charlie Savage, New York Times, and Henrik Moltke
Jun 4
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