Under the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 (FAA), the NSA is allowed to conduct electronic surveillance on any US citizen as long as they are suspected of conversing with any person located outside of the United States.
Controlling the Herd
US Supreme Court refuses to let Americans challenge FISA eavesdropping law
The United States Supreme Court has elected to prevent American citizens challenge a ‘foreign intelligence law’ which allows federal government to eavesdrop on private conversations.
The law allows conversations to be electronically monitored providing the conversation is with a person outside of the United States. Amnesty international said:“
“….plaintiffs have good reason to believe that their communications, in particular, will fall within the scope of the broad surveillance that they can assume the government will conduct”
The American Civil Liberties Union has also complained. They wrote:
“Under the FAA, the government can target anyone — human rights researchers, academics, attorneys, political activists, journalists — simply because they are foreigners outside the United States, and in the course of its surveillance it can collect Americans’ communications with those individuals,”
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