claim: "it's expressly prohibited by law that you can read and wholly surveil domestic email traffic in the united states."
author: mike rogers
evidence_1: apr 9, 2015 ... most americans have a fuzzy understanding of exactly what the national security agency can and cannot see with its surveillance programs, much less what a ... "wholly domestic communication between you and your wife can go to new york to london and back and get caught up in the (nsa) database.
evidence_2: curated research library of tv news clips regarding the nsa, its oversight and privacy issues, 2009-2014 .... none of this programs allow that and, as a matter of fact, the patriot act and that part of that 702 says it is expressly prohibited by law that you can read and wholly surveil domestic e-mail traffic in the united states.
evidence_3: in october 2001, president bush issued a secret presidential order authorizing the nsa to conduct a range of surveillance activities inside of the united states without ... nsa (which you can read about here) focuses on the violation of the first amendment right to association through the mass collection of phone metadata ...
evidence_4: jun 6, 2013 ... exclusive: top secret court order requiring verizon to hand over all call data shows scale of domestic surveillance under obama administration. ... on an "ongoing, daily basis" to give the nsa information on all telephone calls in its systems, both within the us and between the us and other countries.
evidence_5: in many of the countries where privacy is not explicitly recognized in the constitution, such as the united states, ireland and india, the courts have found that right in ... of law, and the many differences in the level of protection in each of its states, the european union passed a europe-wide directive which will provide citizens ...