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NSA Collects Verizon Phone Records by FISA Court Order
An FISA court order requires Verizon to produce records of all land line and cell phone communications. Is it new or an extension of what started during the Bush years?
By Warren Olney • • 51m ListenAn order by a secret court requires Verizon to produce records of every communication on land line or cell phone. Is it an invasion of privacy? Is it something new or an extension of what started during the Bush years? Will the publication produce another leak investigation? Also, the latest on the espionage trial of PFC Bradley Manning
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2 storiesFISA Court Allows Phone Records Collection
Today, a new controversy may pit national security against personal privacy. The Guardian newspaper has published the order of a secret, so-called FISA court. It requires Verizon to provide the National Security Agency with records of every cell phone or land line call in its system, both international and domestic.
Read the story24 minThe Trial of Bradley Manning for WikiLeaks Leaks
PFC Bradley Manning has pled guilty to releasing 700,000 classified documents, which WikiLeaks then published on the Internet — the largest intelligence breach in American history. At the time, Manning worked in what's called a "Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility" at Forward Operating Base Hammer near Baghdad.
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