Does anyone care?
Why is the media subdued about this?
Will it be worse under Trump?
A Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Court ruling was declassified and released this week.
The ruling reveals that the Obama administration engaged in widespread violation of NSA surveillance rules. The Obama administration was reprimanded by the FISA court for illegal searches that constitute “very serious Fourth Amendment issue.”
According to previously classified documents, this admission of methodical and long-term violations of Americans’ Constitutional rights was made on October 26th of 2016.
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This seems newsworthy: friendly FISA court sounds alarm about Obama spying practices, 4th amendment violations, https://t.co/gvO3fU2lDQ
Barack Obama’s team secretly disclosed years of illegal NSA searches spying on Americans
The National Security Agency under former President Barack Obama routinely violated American privacy protections while scouring through overseas intercepts and failed to disclose the extent of the problems until the final days before Donald Trump was elected president last fall, according to once top-secret documents that chronicle some of the most serious constitutional abuses to date by the U.S.