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> "U.S. law and the Constitution protect American citizens and legal residents from warrantless surveillance. That means we have a very strong legal case to challenge mass surveillance conducted domestically or that sweeps in Americans’ communications."

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The EFF is living in fantasy land. The NSA has never considered itself bound to law because it's not a creature of statutory law but came into existence by decree.

> "no existing statutes control, limit, or define the signals intelligence activities of the NSA.”

> Roy Banner, counsel for the NSA, 1976 [0]

[0] https://www.fas.org/irp/agency/army/mipb/2012_04-owen.pdf



This quote is out of context. The NSA deals with foreign intelligence. Generally speaking, only US citizens are protected under US law.


Look at the Project SHAMROCK section after the quote at fas.org. US citizens haven't been protected by law for decades vis a vis SIGINT.




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