In a secret government agreement granted without approval or debate from
lawmakers, the U.S. attorney general recently gave the National
Counterterrorism Center sweeping new powers to store dossiers on U.S.
citizens, even if they are not suspected of a crime, according to a news
report.
Earlier this year, Attorney General Eric Holder granted the center the ability to copy entire government databases holding information on flight records, casino-employee lists, the names of Americans hosting foreign-exchange students and other data, and to store it for up to five years, even without suspicion that someone in the database has committed a crime, according to the Wall Street Journal, which broke the story.
Read more: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/12/gov-dossiers-on-us-citizens/
Earlier this year, Attorney General Eric Holder granted the center the ability to copy entire government databases holding information on flight records, casino-employee lists, the names of Americans hosting foreign-exchange students and other data, and to store it for up to five years, even without suspicion that someone in the database has committed a crime, according to the Wall Street Journal, which broke the story.
Read more: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/12/gov-dossiers-on-us-citizens/
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