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Re:AT&T Helped N.S.A. Spy on an Array of Internet Traffic by cma on Saturday August 15, 2015 @02:45PM (#10066366)
>some hope that the rule of law as being followed

Wasn't it already ruled illegal prior to Snowden and the phone companies had to be retroactively indemnified by congress?

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Re:AT&T Helped N.S.A. Spy on an Array of Internet Traffic by zymhan on Saturday August 15, 2015 @02:52PM (#10066382)
Close, I think that the premise the Bush administration used to obtain this information, "dragnet surveillance", was ruled illegal, which exposed the phone companies to lawsuits. Congress then retroactively indemnified them.

EDIT: This is it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance_%...

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