FBI Surveillance Increases Significantly in 2010 (wired.com)

May 6, 2011 12:00 am


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FBI ramped up secret surveillance in 2010. The FBI more than doubled the number of US persons it targeted with Patriot-Act enhanced National Security Letters, and increased the number of its electronic and physical searches under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act by 13 %.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/05/domestic-surveillance/

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