Politics

It’s Time to Shut the NSA’s Backdoor Used to Spy on Americans

FIX IT

Just because the initial collection of intelligence is legal doesn’t mean it should be if it catches American citizens’ communications. A bill in Congress would fix that.

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Roland Weihrauch

Editor's Note: On July 6, the Washington Post published a story based off of Edward Snowden's cache that shows most of people caught in the National Security Agency's survillence net are ordinary Internet users, not legally targeted foreigners.

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