Reforms of Domestic Government Surveillance
Posted By Ivan Eland
July 23, 2013
In the National Security Agency (NSA) domestic snooping scandal, at least two
major issues exist: 1) warrantless government "traffic" analysis of
patterns of potentially all Americans’ phone calls, from which new technology
allows authorities to assemble a fairy good picture of innocent peoples’ lives;
and 2) the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) Court that has been
a rubber stamp for government warrants to spy on American citizens and permanent
residents. Many lawyers, and even former judges on the secret court, have come
up with laudable, but insufficient, ways to fix the obviously broken system.
However, simple solutions are best: Repeal Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act, which
has allowed government collection and analysis of the phone records of ordinary
Americans, and abolish the FISA Court entirely.
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