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The US government is collecting the phone records of millions of US customers of Verizon under a top secret court order. Read the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court order 

"It's an overstatement to say that it's beginning to look like President George W. Bush's fourth term, 

And now news of a broader program of internet surveillance that reportedly targets foreign communications on U.S.-based servers.

"The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio and video chats, photographs, e-mails, documents, and connection logs that enable analysts to track foreign targets, according to a top-secret document obtained by The Washington Post," 

Gellman and Poitras report that the NSA obtains data from nine internet service providers including Google, Apple, Yahoo and Facebook. The companies 

The Post reports the NSA is using PRISM "as its leading source of raw material, accounting for nearly 1 in 7 intelligence reports."

Today's Question: What level of domestic snooping by the government is acceptable?

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The US government is collecting the phone records of millions of US customers of Verizon under a top secret court order. Read the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court order here via The Guardian “It’s an overstatement to say that it’s beginning to look like President George W. Bush’s fourth term, writes NPR’s Frank James. Still, that…

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