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Benjamin Franklin, a founding father of this nation, had previously addressed a topic that we have been battling with today by stating that, "those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." We can decipher from Franklin’s quote that to him, privacy is more important than “so-called” safety. Likewise, the common notion that most people have is that the NSA was established after 9/11 in order to keep us “secure” from outside attacks, however, these assumptions are far from the truth. The NSA was actually created on November 4, 1952 at the command of President Truman in order to provide security during WWII. The Guardian conducted an interview with an NSA worker named William …show more content…

The 4th Amendment of the constitution “prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures and requires any warrant to be issued by a judge and supported by a probable cause” (constitution, par. 4). If this is the case then the Supreme Court will need to issue 8 billion warrants because not only does the NSA spy on us they also spy on other countries. Section 702 of the FISA Amendments act gives broad targeting guidelines for people outside of the United States. Due to this new Act, America is now allowed to spy on people in other countries if they have reason to believe that they are “suspects.” Based on a study of the largest sample of Section 702 data analyzed to date, approximately 90% of the text messages, emails, instant messages, and other communications retained by NSA, even after the application of minimization procedures, are to or from accounts who are not surveillance targets” (Laperuqque). This shows that the NSA is abusing its power not only in the US but outside as …show more content…

However that is not the case. James Bamford is a best-selling author who has written multiple books about the National Security Agency. His latest book The Shadow Factory brings to light the fact that the NSA is drowning in so much data that they are running out of places to store it (Bamford, 2). The fact that they don’t have enough space to store their data let alone sift though it all shows a big problem with the National Security Agency. This bulk collection method is invasive and apparently not effective. The NSA has only captured 2 attacks in their 65 years of being one wasn’t even an attack but simply a donation to a terrorist organization. What I want to make clear is the fact that due to this blanket surveillance nothing effective is being done. So the NSA needs to find better methods of keeping America safe along with limiting the scope of Section 702 before foreign countries

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NSA SPYING PROGRAMMES The United States of America has been ranked the best country with a strong security and defense capability and currently still holds the position. Over the years from independence, the U.S.A continue to increase in strengthen and power to self-defend and ability to intercept major issues around the world. From the World War II and other subsequence wars that followed, the whole world can testify to the superiority of the American Military and their efficiency in the field. This doesn’t just stop there; USA spends almost 20% of their budget on the defense and security of the nation.

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34). FISA investigators are required to seek authorization from the court prior to collecting intelligence (p. 34). As noted earlier, the PATRIOT Act dilutes this requirement by authorizing the FBI to wiretap any device with just one authorization (p. 34). In fact, authorization can be obtained without any documentation so security agencies are able to collect data from almost any source making a large population vulnerable to monitoring (p. 34). The Bush administration justified use of the wiretapping program.

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According to ACLU, “Recent disclosures also show that an unknown number of purely domestic communications are monitored, that the rules that supposedly protect Americans' privacy are weak and riddled with exceptions, and that virtually every email that goes into or out of the United States is scanned for suspicious keywords.” Through this action, citizens are being more prepared to insure that similar acts that occurred on 9/11 never have to happen again. The FISA Amendments Act of 2008 (FAA) gave NSA almost unchecked power to monitor americans. U.S citizens need to be educated on what is going on when they are using their phones but they also need to learn about why it needs to be done. According to HR14, once Thinthread, which is a technology that protected civil liberties in alignment with the Constitution, and was relatively inexpensive to implement had gained permission to such the NSA database they found critical information that gave evidence of the hijackers actions before 9/11.

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This act allows law enforcement agencies (NSA) surveillance

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Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act allows U.S. intelligence agencies to acquire foreign intelligence information by monitoring foreign persons in the USA and abroad. This act ensures that intelligence agencies can respond in time to terminate a security threat. The most important part of this act, the Section 702 forbids deliberate monitoring of US citizens and their communication. Technically NSA has been violating this act ever since it has been enacted in 2008 because, as we know, they have been monitoring all US citizenry.

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The NSA or the National Security Agency carries out most of the domestic surveillance in the United States. Before the 9/11 attacks the NSA needed approval from a court, but after the attacks, they were given free reign to copy any data that possibly linked to terrorist activities. This led to many arguments over whether this collection of data was unconstitutional or not. The extent of this surveillance shocked many people; many civil rights advocates thought that this surveillance breached United States citizens’ rights. Because of the threat of domestic surveillance in the United States it should be decreased drastically but not entirely stopped.

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On May 17th, 2002, a FISA court denied the Justice Department rights to monitor U.S. citizens (USA Patriot Act.). On January 23rd, 2004, the Supreme Court declares some parts of the Patriot Act unconstitutional (USA Patriot Act.). This meant that law enforcement had to change their tactics on observing suspected terrorists. Unfortunately, law enforcement and other security agencies were being caught breaking the law to find terrorists. In June of 2005, the telecommunication company AT&T admitted to allowing the government to illegally monitor millions of messages a second (USA Patriot Act.).

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While many view this act as an invasion of privacy, others argue this is a precaution implemented to prevent another terror attack on American soil and abroad. According to former NSA Chief and CIA Director Michael Hayden, “the intelligence capacities and constant fluctuations of regulations have tied the abilities of both the NSA and Intelligence communities from expanding its reach in inflicting damage toward ISIS” (Song, 2015, para.1). NSA has the ability to gather real-time information that can be useful in disrupting ISIS activities. The restrictions on its implementation continue to become more strenuous.

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Big Brother is watching you. The National Security Agency (NSA), or “No Such Agency” due to the classified nature, was established in 1952 by Harry S. Truman. Long before Edward Snowden the NSA has been spying on US citizens; for instance during the Vietnam War with Project MINARET were civil rights leaders, such as Martin Luther King, were monitored. However, it would not be until 1978 that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) would be passed (because of warrantless domestic spying), so that the mass surveillance in the US would have some limitations. Thus, creating the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), but are these limitations enough to protect our personal privacy?

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Apparently, there are people that support the NSA’s program of mass surveillance. They claim “those with nothing to hide have nothing to fear” (Suzdaltsev). People that either write or send illegal information need to be discovered and caught. The only way for that to happen is if a search or arrest warrant is issued or if there’s enough probable

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According to rason.com,“Obama thinks people should not worry about this. A presenatal spokesmen accused that surveillance program is a critical tool to help protect the nation. ”According to Buzzfeed.com,“NSA said that any allegations that is operating outside of its authorities and knowingly violating us and personal libraries is false.” According to WashingtonPost, “officials say they do not purposely collect U.S phone locations, they have swept up incidentally.” These examples show that the NSA spying can save people's lives and prevent future terrorist attacks.

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This is just bad. They are doing everything they want. They are clearly trying to know everything about us. Another very disturbing thing about NSA was that it was spying “communications of the Brazilian oil giant Petro bras… elected leaders of allied states,” and German chancellor Angela Merkel (Greenwald 202). What?

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With globalization becoming widespread, the globe has encountered increased counts of terrorism. America has had several encounters with this issue. Due to the events that occurred on 9/11, our country has taken multiple initiatives to prevent any more terrorists’ attacks from occurring on our own soil. One major initiative is widespread domestic surveillance. Most people believe that this initiative has gone too far, but I have to disagree.

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The government uses different technologies to “maintain order”, or in other words spy on us. The first reason this is an abuse of power is that it is unconstitutional. Lauren Donohue states, “The National Security Agency’s recently revealed

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