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DOJ domestic phone, email, Internet surveillance of Americans skyrocketed under Obama
A new report from the American Civil Liberties Union shows a dramatic increase in the U.S. Department of Justice’s electronic surveillance of Americans under the Obama administration.
Documents obtained by the ACLU through a Freedom of Information Act request revealed that under President Obama between 2009 and 2011, warrantless electronic surveillance requests by the Justice Department to spy on phone communications increased 60 percent from 23,535 to 37,616.
The number of people whose phone calls were subject to such surveillance during that same time period tripled.
Phone numbers called and received, emails sent and received, and other Internet communications were all monitored by the federal government via “pen register” and “trap and trace devices” — systems that measure the data, not the content, about the communication.
Such techniques are different from wiretaps, which monitor the content of communications.
More people were subjected to federal government pen register and trap and trace surveillance of their phones in the past two years than in the previous decade.
DOJ surveillance of Internet communications, while rarer, increased 361 percent between 2009 and 2011.
Bob M.
October 2nd, 2012
That’s a lotta EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVIL bitter clingy honkies to hafta keep track of! Worse still – they MIGHT VOTE next month!
dba_vagabond_trader
October 2nd, 2012
You don’t say?
Lazy & Incarcerated
October 2nd, 2012
You don’t think they’re gonna let the new $1.5 billion Community Comprehensive National Cyber-security Initiative Data Center in Utah go to waste now, do ya?
And if they are reading this, they can kiss my racist ass!
BILL
October 2nd, 2012
no kidding sherlock !
my phone calls on my personal line at home are always disconnected in the middle of conversations about the gangster government with associates.
none of my business calls on my business phone are ever disconnected from my home.
i believe they actively monitor and disconnect your phone calls. but i am paranoid !
Boobie the Rocket Dog
October 2nd, 2012
Is that ever a double-edged sword!
It’s a great tool to have, just not in the hands of a DemocRAT, especially an Obamarrhoid.
fb1742
October 2nd, 2012
Obama: No warrantless wiretaps if you elect me
The front-running Democrat in the New Hampshire primary makes the promise in one last stump speech at an election day rally with the Facebook generation.
by Anne Broache
| January 8, 2008 1:16 PM PST
fb1742
October 2nd, 2012
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9845595-7.html
judgeroybean
October 2nd, 2012
Something doesn’t pass the smell test. Why would the commies at the ACLU question a fellow commie? I can see them raising 7 kinds of hell if Bush did it once, but to question obammie the commie?
Houston
October 2nd, 2012
Well don’t forget how they’ve been watching us on twitter and Facebook. He’s learned a lot from the Iranian uprising he refused to support.
Funny how he supported the “Arab Spring” yet ignored that uprising along with the fight in Syria.
even steven
October 2nd, 2012
Great… the phone police. My tax dollars hard at work.