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[From Center for American Progress]

A Legal Analysis of the NSA Warrantless Surveillance Program

by Morton H. Halperin
January 6, 2006

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The warrantless National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance program is an illegal and unnecessary intrusion into the privacy of all Americans. The Congress must act swiftly to determine the scope of the program and insist that all electronic surveillance in the United States be conducted pursuant to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). This memorandum examines the government’s legal defense of the program and concludes that it lacks serious merit.

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