A 2008 law, the FISA Amendments Act, legalized the warrantless surveillance program that the
Bush administration created after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
The law permits the government to intercept phone calls and emails without a warrant and on domestic soil, as long as the surveillance target is a noncitizen who lives abroad.<Nothing but outrage from the left when this accrued and until Obama was elected.
In fall 2011, the Obama administration obtained the approval of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court for analysts to search for “U.S. person identifiers” in the repository, enabling them to pull out phone calls and emails involving
Americans that had been intercepted because the people involved had been in contact with a foreign target.
< Not one peep out of the left at all.
Hints that the rules permitted that activity first appeared in pointed questions by Mr. Wyden.
In 2012, when the FISA Amendments Act was up for renewal, he led an unsuccessful legislative push to begin requiring judicial approval to search the communications gathered under the program.
<Obama still wants this in place thats why nothing is happening with an investigation.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/0...n_5072507.html
Still not a peep out of the hypocritical left