Cristy Li

 (FOX News) Americans are learning this morning that none of us are safe from the unlawful eavesdropping of a far reaching NSA/FISA Court Order, permitting widespread collection of phone records from millions of Verizon customers throughout the U.S. according to a secret order obtained by The Guardian.

In 2008 the Foreign Intelligence Amendments Act (FAA) reauthorized amendments of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) that created a ‘Secret Court’ to review wiretap applications for national security investigations conducted in the United States that involve  foreign powers and/or their agents.

The original FAA enacted into law in 2008 were said to address the problem by allowing a “FISA Secret Court” to streamline approval for surveillance if suspected foreign state and terrorist agents without requiring an individual application for each target–so as long the government ‘reasonably believed’ the targets are located outside the United States, individual warrants however were still necessary (at least we still believed that the 4th Amendment was still controlling authority)  if the target is a U.S. Citizen regardless where she/he is located and even if the government may believe that she/he were acting as a foreign agent.

Now we learn during Obama’s Watch, not even the Constitution, which was to limit government will get in their way from conducting round the clock surveillance, targeting millions of Verizon Customers in the United States without probable cause of anything.

Do you fear them now?

Related: 1984 Published 64 Years Ago Today –Natl Journal

What if the Constitution No Longer Applied? –Andrew Napolitano

FBI Wants Back Door to All Software –WND

H/T: Xiao-Mei