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Secret court lets NSA extend its trawl of Verizon customers' phone records
The National Security Agency has
been allowed to extend its dragnet of the telephone records of millions of US
customers of Verizon through a court order issued by the secret court that
oversees surveillance. According to Democratic senator Dianne Feinstein, the
Verizon phone surveillance has been in place – updated every three months – for
at least six years, and it is understood to have been applied to other telecoms
giants as well. The decision to go public with the latest Fisa court order is
an indication of how the Obama administration has opened up the previously
hidden world of mass communications surveillance, however slightly, since
former NSA contractor Edward Snowden exposed the scheme to the Guardian. The
Verizon metadata was the first of the major disclosures originating with
Snowden, who remains in legal limbo in the international airport in Moscow.
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