
“Sobriety checkpoints and mandatory drug testing of student athletes and railroad workers are among the legal precedents justifying the U.S. government’s now-defunct and court-approved secret email metadata dragnet surveillance program, according to documents the authorities released late Monday. The thousands of pages of records the President Barack Obama administration unveiled include the nation’s first opinion from a secret tribunal authorizing the government to obtain data from the ‘to,’ ‘from,’ ‘cc,’ and ‘bcc’ fields of all emails ‘to thwart terrorist attacks.'”
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/11/nsa-web-metadata/
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