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NSA destroyed evidence showing it spied on ordinary Americans

Thursday, June 19, 2014 11:42
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~~The National Security Agency hasn’t exactly stopped spying on Americans en masse just yet, but a new court filing accuses the NSA of unlawfully destroying the evidence it collected against United States citizens for years.

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 Leaked documents made it clear nearly one year ago that the US government has been eavesdropping on the communications of ordinary Americans through a vast surveillance apparatus maintained by the NSA and exposed by former contractor Edward Snowden. Before those intelligence leaks began to drip out last June, though, the NSA was already years into a heated legal battle concerning allegations surrounding those very spy programs.

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 That case — Jewel vs NSA — has indeed been affected by last year’s disclosures, which confirmed once and for all that the US intelligence community has, in fact, been collecting a great deal of personal details pertaining to millions of Americans on a regular basis. In the midst of that legal back and forth, however, attorneys for the plaintiffs now say that “there was no doubt that the government has destroyed years of evidence of NSA spying.”

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Those allegations were formalized in a filing made by attorneys for the Electronic Frontier Foundation last week in US District Court for the Northern District of California, where the Jewel case has been heard by federal judges since 2008 — five years before the first Snowden leaks occurred.

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 In a brief filed last Friday by the EFF — a digital rights group representing a handful of plaintiffs who’ve accused the NSA of unlawfully spying, including former AT&T customer Carolyn Jewel — attorneys said the government has admitted to expunging the spy records it collected against innocent Americans.

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Read more here- NSA destroys Evidence it spied on Americans

http://generalstrikeusa.blogspot.com/2014/06/nsa-destroyed-evidence-showing-it-spied.html

 

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