The Verge -
19 Jun 2013 08:12

Over the past two weeks, the US government has insisted that its powers under Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act require the NSA to get a "special, particularized order" from the FISA court to intercept an individual American's communications. Analyzing both the law on the books and NSA documents, Glenn Greenwald at The Guardian concludes that in practice, the FISA Amendments Act allows the NSA to cast a much wider net, and that once the NSA secures FISA court approval, the decisions about w...
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