US Government Admits NSA Surveillance Violated 4th Amendment
Released letter late Friday to avoid media scrutiny
Steve Watson
Prisonplanet.com
July 23, 2012
In a rare admission that has gone almost completely unreported, the Director of National Intelligence has admitted that the National Security Agency violated the US constitution and abused its power by spying on American citizens and monitoring their communications.
The admission was made in a letter to Senator Ron Wyden, released late on Friday, seemingly in an attempt to bury the story and avoid a media frenzy. Spencer Ackerman at Wired reports:
The head of the U.S. government’s vast spying apparatus has conceded that recent surveillance efforts on at least one occasion violated the Constitutional prohibitions on unlawful search and seizure.
The admission comes in a letter from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence declassifying statements that a top U.S. Senator wished to make public in order
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