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FISA Court Orders Telecoms to Aid Gov’t Spying

HeadlineJan 16, 2009

Back in the United States, a secret federals appeals court has ruled telecommunications companies must help the government monitor email and phone calls of Americans suspected of being terrorists or spies. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ruling came down in August but has only just been publicly disclosed. The ruling came in response to an unidentified company’s legal challenge to the 2007 FISA law OKing warantless spying.

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