CSPAN2 Key Capitol Hill Hearings April 7, 2015
Because of course if the government were targeting a particular known u. S. Person for surveillance for criminal prosecution purposes it would need a warrant. Heres how that looks in practice. The government certifies to the fisa court would have no interest in any particular known u. S. Person, clicks the data, then run searches on the data using the names phone numbers and email accounts of particular note u. S. Persons. This is called backdoor searches. The nsa and the set a data privately to thousand of these in 2013. According to the privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board the fbi doe...