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By Elliot D. Cohen
An international procedure of mass, warrantless, govt surveillance now imperils privateness and different civil liberties necessary to maintaining the loose world. This undertaking to unilaterally, completely keep watch over info move is a made from complicated, ongoing interaction among technological, political, criminal, company, fiscal, and social elements, together with examine and improvement of complicated, electronic applied sciences; an unremitting “war on terror”; cozy surveillance legislation; govt alliances with details know-how businesses; mass media manipulation; and company globalism. This publication info those and different elements contributing to this degenerative development; specifies ideas for confident switch; and offers a platform for grassroots efforts to forestall the decline earlier than it really is too late.
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The role of the FIS Court appears to have been limited by this Act to approving the general design of the software used in conducting intelligence acquisitions. This consists of reviewing the authorizations made by the Attorney General and Director of National Intelligence to see if this general design satisfactorily conforms to “minimization procedures,” that is, that it takes reasonable precautions to avoid targeting American citizens. However, without access to the algorithm itself, as well as to the actual source code and a representative sampling of the data that ultimately get caught in its electronic net, there is no way to confirm that the actual procedures pass legal muster and are constitutional.
6304 has set the stage for this decline by shortcircuiting judicial oversight by FIS Courts of warrantless, federal surveillance of American citizens, and by blocking and sealing off any realistic legal means, as through civil suits and state investigations, of exposing and remedying such violations of civil liberties. Executive Order 21333 has capitalized off of these breakdowns in checks and balances, creating by fiat, a unilateral executive authority and control over the warrantless surveillance of American citizens at home and abroad.
4 The company in question, Qwest Communications, had refused to comply with the Bush administration’s directive on the grounds that the program would have been in violation of the Fourth Amendment rights of its customers. The directive was issued pursuant to an amendment to the 1978 FISA called the Protect America Act (PAA), which became law on August 5, 2007, and sunset February 16, 2008. The Court concluded that the directive, which was issued at the time the PAA was in force, was lawful. Ironically, just six days after the Court publicized its decision, and one day after Bush left office, former NSA officer Russell Tice claimed that the surveillance program had routinely parsed through all faxes, phone calls, e-mail exchanges, and Internet searches of every American.