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Originally posted by mrdorkbutt
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Well, it was the Patriot Act and the illegal wiretapping program through NSA. Monitoring phone calls and emails...recordings who to who and for how long in databases...then all of the relaxed rules on searches, etc, in the Patriot Act. For example, Section 215 modified the rules on records searches. Post-Patriot Act, third-party holders of your financial, library, travel, video rental, phone, medical, church, synagogue, and mosque records can be searched without your knowledge or consent, providing the government says it's trying to protect against terrorism. Before the Patriot Act acquiring this sort of info required at least a warrant and probable cause. After the Patriot Act, they could just claim it was in the interests of National Security.
illegal wiretapping you say? You mean they were doing it before the Patriot Act made it legal? *GASP*