NYTimes: Documents Show N.S.A.’s Moves on Surveillance Before Congress’s Approval

NYTimes: Documents Show N.S.A.’s Moves on Surveillance Before Congress’s Approval by Charlie Savage:

WASHINGTON — A federal judge ruled in 2007 that the U.S.A. Patriot Act empowered the National Security Agency to collect foreigners’ emails and phone calls from domestic networks without prior judicial approval, newly declassified documents show.

The documents — two rulings of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court — fill in a chapter in the history of the N.S.A.’s warrantless surveillance program. They show the agency’s secret moves in the months before Congress authorized the spying by enacting the Protect America Act in August 2007.

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