The Guardian News of the UK has released a top secret order of a federal judge serving for the "Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court" at the behest of the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) to require Verizon to turn over the phone records of millions of Americans to the NSA (National Security Agency). The order dates from April 25, 2013 to July 19, 2013.
See: http://m.guardiannews.com/world/2013/jun/06/nsa-phone-records-verizon-court-order.
The copy of the court order can be seen here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2013/jun/06/verizon-telephone-data-court-order.
See the New American article: http://thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/15631-verizon-hands-over-customer-data-daily-to-nsa-top-secret-order-reveals.
In other words, millions of innocent Americans have had their call records shared with a federal spy agency in open and hostile defiance of the Fourth Amendment’s guarantee of “the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures.”
Published on Jun 6, 2013-YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLJZK5XztMs.
Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), one of the authors of the Patriot Act, said in a Thursday letter to Attorney General Eric Holder that he is "extremely troubled" by the National Security Agency's seizure of the phone records of millions of Verizon customers through a secret court ruling.
"I do not believe the released FISA order is consistent with the requirements of the Patriot Act," Sensenbrenner wrote. "How could the phone records of so many innocent Americans be relevant to an authorized investigation as required by the Act?"
"Seizing phone records of millions of innocent people is excessive and un-American," he added in a press release that accompanied the letter.
"I do not believe the released FISA order is consistent with the requirements of the Patriot Act," Sensenbrenner wrote. "How could the phone records of so many innocent Americans be relevant to an authorized investigation as required by the Act?"
"Seizing phone records of millions of innocent people is excessive and un-American," he added in a press release that accompanied the letter.
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