Government agencies are always trying to find ways to get around the Fourth Amendment.
The NSA’s long history of often legally sketchy mass surveillance continues, despite some of the agency’s activities getting exposed more than a decade ago by whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Now, the National Security Agency has had to reveal, in response to a senator’s questions, that it is, as one report put it, “sidestepping” obtaining warrants first before it buys people’s information, put on sale by data brokers.
This came to light in an exchange of letters between Senator Ron Wyden and several top security officials.