Posted: 26 Apr 2015 10:00 PM PDT
After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the George W. Bush
administration ordered the National Security Agency (NSA) to ignore the
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 by beginning the secret
warrantless surveillance of international phone calls, emails and data
without going through the Judicial Branch of government. This
surveillance evolved into a program called Stellarwind. Now, newly
declassified documents show that the data obtained from Stellarwind was
so secret that it was not useful in tracking terrorists.
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