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Electronic Surveillance on Public Soars; Congress Shirks Oversight Responsibility
DoJ email and Internet snooping increased 361% between 2009 and 2011by Dave Gahary
If any American was still foolish enough to believe that the United States is still a democracy protected by the supreme law of the land, the U.S. Constitution, documents handed over last week to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) by the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) should put those notions to rest. The government files “reveal that federal law enforcement agencies are increasingly monitoring Americans’ electronic communications, and doing so without warrants, sufficient oversight, or meaningful accountability.”
Although “Congress requires that the attorney general submit annual reports to Congress on the Justice Department’s use of these devices,” “the Justice Department repeatedly failed to submit annual reports to Congress between 2000 and 2008 (submitting them instead as “document dumps” covering four years’ worth of surveillance in 2005 and 2009).”
And while average Americans are being spied on by their own government, you can forget about the surveillers being surveilled by our public servants in Congress. According to the ACLU’s findings, “even when the Justice Department does turn over the reports, they have disappeared ‘into a congressional void.’” …
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2012-10-13 03:01:30
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