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mtgx on June 6, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: U.S. Is Secretly Collecting Records of Verizon Cal...

There's no real oversight, and they are using "secret Courts" and "secret interpretations" even of these obscure and very vague laws.

_delirium on June 6, 2013 [–]

It isn't really particularly obscure or vague. The Patriot Act authorizes exactly this (and many other things), explicitly and openly.

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