During the Obama years, the National Security
Agency intentionally and routinely intercepted and reviewed
communications of American citizens in violation of the Constitution and of court-ordered guidelines implemented pursuant to federal law.
The unlawful surveillance appears to have been a massive abuse of the
government’s foreign-intelligence-collection authority, carried out for
the purpose of monitoring the communications of Americans in the United
States. While aware that it was going on for an extensive period of
time, the administration failed to disclose its unlawful surveillance of
Americans until late October 2016, when the administration was winding
down and the NSA needed to meet a court deadline in order to renew
various surveillance authorities under the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act (FISA).
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