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NSA Surveillance Legality Stems From Sobriety Checkpoints
- Wired, Wednesday, November 20, 2013 9:25 AM
Why is NSA email spying legal? Oddly enough, the legal precedents stem from the same law that allows the police to hold sobriety checkpoints and mandatory drug testing of student athletes and railroad workers, according to documents the authorities released on Monday. The new records revealed include the opinions from a secret tribunal which authorized the government to legally access email data from the “to,” “from,” “cc,” and “bcc” fields of all emails “to thwart terrorist attacks.”
