Secret Evidence and the Threat of More Warrantless Surveillance

Expand A man is seen near cyber code and the U.S. National Security Agency logo in this photo illustration taken in Sarajevo March 11, 2015. © 2015 Reuters Today, the US House of Representatives advanced a bill renewing and even expanding a highly controversial law that grants vast powers to the National Security Agency (NSA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The law, Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, allows warrantless telephone and internet monitoring of non-US citizens abroad – itself a human rights problem – and the capture of potentially enormous amounts…

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