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    Edward Snowden Cons

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    classified National Security Administration (NSA) surveillance operator, this amendment was challenged. The NSA Prism Program is used to gain private information from all Americans no matter whether it is from private facebook messengers, private emails, private texts, or even private phone calls. Mr. Snowden tells reports that he and the Prism Program team have private information tracing back up to seven years ago from American’s using Verizon network. Legal…

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    NSA warrantless surveillance controversy Introduction The NSA warrantless surveillance controversy concerns with the surveillance of people within the United States. It all started while the collection of allegedly foreign intelligence by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) was going on as part of the war on terror. The National Security Agency is one of America's largest intelligence organizations. It is similar to the FBI and CIA. It specializes in codebreaking and code making, and…

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    The Importance Of The NSA

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    agency, they said, still seeks warrants to monitor entirely domestic communications”. The sole purpose of the NSA program was to safeguard our national security in a more expansive, efficient manner. The center on law and security (2007) states “…this requirement to demonstrate all of the substantive and procedural elements of FISA to the Attorney General's satisfaction before any surveillance can begin, would fatally impair the President's ability to carry out his constitutional…

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    This intelligence organization is called the National Security Agency (NSA) and was established in 1972 by President Truman. The NSA had few issues with the American people, up until 2013, when the Guardian newspaper reported that the NSA was collecting the telephone and email records of tens of millions…

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    expanded full title is “Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Require to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001.” This act quickly caused controversy and sparked many debates about national security and civil liberties because it created legislative changes which significantly increased the surveillance and investigative powers of law enforcement agencies in the United States without providing a system of checks and balances to safeguard civil liberties. The only…

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    violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized” (The Charters of Freedom). There has been much controversy as to what is considered to be protected under constitutional law relating to one’s right of privacy. Although a reasonable right to privacy is not explicitly stated in the Constitution, this particular right has developed into a civil liberty…

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    mass surveillance on everyone. Not until Edward Snowden, a former employee of the NSA (National Security Agency), exposed how much data the U.S. had collected on its citizens in 2013, it was not known to the public. Since then, controversy has stirred up on whether it is justifiable for the U.S. to invade its people’s privacy in the sake of national security. It is not justifiable, nor constitutional, for the U.S. to invade its people’s privacy through the means of conducting…

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