The Obama administration secretly won permission from a surveillance court in 2011 to reverse restrictions on the National Security Agency’s use of intercepted phone calls and e-mails, permitting the agency to search deliberately for Americans’ communications in its massive databases, according to interviews with government officials and recently declassified material.

In addition, the court extended the length of time that the NSA is allowed to retain intercepted U.S. communications from five years to six years — and more under special circumstances, according to the documents, which include a recently released 2011 opinion by U.S. District Judge John D. Bates, then chief judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.

What had not been previously acknowledged is that the court in 2008 imposed an explicit ban — at the government’s request — on those kinds of searches, that officials in 2011 got the court to lift the bar and that the search authority has been used.

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So, the sensitive and caring egalitarian Democrat, who came to save us from the power mad Republican, secretly reversed surveillance restrictions voluntarily requested by the aforementioned power mad Republican?

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Not to worry. I'm sure Michael Moore is producing - as I write this - a new, blockbuster documentary that will blow the lid off Zero's utter contempt and disdain for the Constitution - particularly the 4th Amendment.

What's that you say??? Oh . . . that's right. Zero's a "D".

Nevermind.

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Ahhhh,but what you are overlooking is that the Dims do it for your own good because they care so much about you,and the evil racist cracka Republicans do it because they are ebil.

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