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Originally Posted by The_Waco_Kid
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The Breech of compliance( improperly listening to people's phone calls) started with Bush43. From your link.
Scope of surveillance[edit]
It was revealed that the NSA intercepts telephone and internet communications of over a billion people worldwide, seeking information on terrorism as well as foreign politics, economics
[47] and "commercial secrets".
[48] In a declassified document it was revealed that 17,835 phone lines were on an improperly permitted "alert list" from 2006 to 2009 in breach of compliance, which tagged these phone lines for daily monitoring.
[49][50][51] Eleven percent of these monitored phone lines met the agency's legal standard for "reasonably articulable suspicion" (RAS).
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