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DOJ sought to surveil several thousand U.S. citizens in 2012

http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/16/doj-sought-to-surveil-several-thousand-u-s-citizens-in-2012/

Daily Caller – Josh Peterson – 5/16/2013

The Justice Department sought the authority to spy on several thousand “United States persons” in 2012, according to a letter the department recently sent to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

The letter, which was dispatched on April 30, said the FBI made 15,229 requests in 2012 for electronic surveillance using the federal government’s National Security Letter authorities. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, commonly called the “FISA court,” handled the applications.

“These sought information pertaining to 6,233 different United States persons,” wrote Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Peter Kadzik in the letter.

In the final days of December 2012, President Barack Obama signed the renewal of the federal government’s warrantless surveillance program under FISA, following a contentious battle in the Senate for the program’s reauthorization.

The Justice Department is currently under fire from a May 11 report by The Associated Press that accuses the DOJ of engaging in an unprecedented infringement of press freedom in the U.S.

The AP reported that the DOJ secretly subpoenaed two months of AP journalists’ phone records, affecting 20 phone lines and at least 100 journalists, by the AP’s estimate.

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