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May. 12th, 2006 10:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sophiaserpentiaOur illustrious leader has been caught in another lie. After the Washington Post reported in December last year that the National Security Agency has been conducting warrantless surveillance on phone calls, he insisted that this only involved international calls. But it has now been revealed that the NSA is watching domestic phone calls too.
His defense is to argue that domestic calls are not being listened to. But still, it's not immediately obvious why the NSA would need to keep a database of this information, when phone companies are able to produce this information on demand.
Yesterday it was revealed that the NSA has a massive database logging the details of many millions of domestic calls made within the US, with information provided to them (again, without warrants or court supervision) by major phone companies.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
zarq has an excellent rundown of the situation here, including some good information on how the Department of Justice has been blocked from investigating the legality of warrantless wiretaps.
His defense is to argue that domestic calls are not being listened to. But still, it's not immediately obvious why the NSA would need to keep a database of this information, when phone companies are able to produce this information on demand.
Yesterday it was revealed that the NSA has a massive database logging the details of many millions of domestic calls made within the US, with information provided to them (again, without warrants or court supervision) by major phone companies.
zarq has an excellent rundown of the situation here, including some good information on how the Department of Justice has been blocked from investigating the legality of warrantless wiretaps.
