Today, the WSJ reports that NSA--once confined to foreign surveillance--has built a domestic surveillance program that can sift through individuals' phone records, email subject lines and destinations, financial transactions, Internet searches and sites visited. All without judicial warrants.
It's like the Pentagon's Total Information Awareness program (eliminated in 2003 over concerns it was too intrusive), except with even less privacy protection.
Chris Hayes
Today, the WSJ reports that NSA–once confined to foreign surveillance–has built a domestic surveillance program that can sift through individuals’ phone records, email subject lines and destinations, financial transactions, Internet searches and sites visited. All without judicial warrants.
It’s like the Pentagon’s Total Information Awareness program (eliminated in 2003 over concerns it was too intrusive), except with even less privacy protection.
Chris HayesTwitterChris Hayes is the Editor-at-Large of The Nation and host of “All In with Chris Hayes” on MSNBC.