The NSA and Eavesdropping
What is the NSA?
The National Security Agency/Central Security Service is America’s cryptologic organization. It coordinates, directs, and performs highly specialized activities to protect U.S. government information systems and produce foreign signals intelligence information. A high technology organization, NSA is on the frontiers of communications and data processing. It is also one of the most important centers of foreign language analysis and research within the government.
NSA Spying on Americans Is Illegal (December 29, 2005)
What if it emerged that the President of the United States was flagrantly violating the Constitution and a law passed by the Congress to protect Americans against abuses by a super-secret spy agency? What if, instead of apologizing, he said, in essence, “I have the power to do that, because I say I can.” That frightening scenario is exactly what we are now witnessing in the case of the warrantless NSA spying ordered by President Bush that was reported December 16, 2005 by the New York Times.
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Senators Debate How Far to Expand Domestic Spying Powers (December 17, 2007)
Senators are debating Monday morning how far the National Security Agency can eavesdrop inside the United States without getting a court warrant and whether to give amnesty to companies that helped the administration spy on Americans without warrants for five years.
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