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allodial
09-30-14, 09:23 PM
New documents show legal basis for NSA surveillance programs

Posted September 29, 2014 2:28 pm by PatriotRising with 0 comments

Order intended to give government broad authority over surveillance of international targets
1937
Documents released by the U.S. government show it views an executive order issued in 1981 as the basis of most of the National Security Agency’s surveillance activities, the American Civil Liberties Union said on Monday [More (http://patriotrising.com/2014/09/29/new-documents-show-legal-basis-nsa-surveillance-programs/)]

Related: EO12333 (PDF format from fas.org) (http://fas.org/irp/offdocs/eo/eo-12333-2008.pdf)