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Spencer Ackerman for The Guardian

Snowden Disclosures Helped Reduce Use Of Patriot Act Provision To Acquire Emails

Leaks in 2013 helped shift FBI away from using controversial Section 215 to acquire email and other metadata, US justice department watchdog finds.

September 30th, 2016

By Spencer Ackerman for The Guardian

Snowden Disclosures Helped Reduce Use Of Patriot Act Provision To Acquire Emails

Edward Snowden’s disclosures were partially responsible for reversing a massive growth in the use of a controversial provision of the Patriot Act for acquiring email and other so-called “business records”, the US justice department’s internal watchdog has found. The Patriot Act provision, known as Section 215, permits intelligence and law

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Alvin Hellerstein, who presided over 12-year lawsuit to disclose military images of detainee abuse, may force further release of photographs in ‘near future.’

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Justice Department’s national security chief cites six-month transition period in the USA Freedom Act as a reason to turn the bulk surveillance spigot back on.

June 09th, 2015

By Spencer Ackerman for The Guardian

The legal request, filed nearly four hours after Barack Obama vowed to sign a new law banning precisely the bulk collection he asks the secret court to approve, also suggests that the administration

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Agency representatives are secretly meet with members of Congress as debate reignites on Capitol Hill with the Patriot Act section set to expire soon.

April 20th, 2015

By Spencer Ackerman for The Guardian

Homeland Security logo reflected in the eyeglasses of a cybersecurity analyst at the agency’s secretive cyber defense facility in Idaho.  (AP/Mark J. Terrill) With about 45 days remaining before a major post-9/11 surveillance authorization expires, representatives of the National Security Agency and the 

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The Chicago police department operates an off-the-books interrogation compound, rendering Americans unable to be found by family or attorneys while locked inside what lawyers say is the domestic equivalent of a CIA black site.

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