Congressman requests subpoena of NSA’s White House, IRS phone logs

Re:Congressman requests subpoena of NSA’s White House, IRS p... by alohamora on Friday June 14, 2013 @01:51PM (#5881300)

And now, we start using call logs to investigate non-terrorist crimes? Politics aside, this is what everyone's actually worried about.

If there were some magical guarantee from the good fairy of civil liberties that broad surveillance could only ever be used to stop terrorism, it would be far, far less troublesome.

The problem is using surveillance for any crime one wants to investigate.

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Re:Congressman requests subpoena of NSA’s White House, IRS p... by rjeaster on Friday June 14, 2013 @04:31PM (#5882313)

The point is as long as the data is there it can be abused. A law saying that it cannot be accessed except in terrorism related cases is effectively meaningless because it could still be accessed illegally in secret, or the law could change in the future.

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