U.S. citizens who aren't accused of crimes are entitled to strong constitutional privacy protections.
To alleviate worries that citizens' rights might be violated through "Incidental" spying on foreign targets, the intel agencies adopted strict rules.
An official who is a bad actor may want to monitor a U.S. citizen - say, a political enemy or a journalist - but knows he could never get wiretap approval from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
Later, he builds a case for "Unmasking" the U.S. citizen's name, supposedly for national security or other crucial reasons.
The U.S. citizens are usually none the wiser.
Later, she admitted on MSNBC that she had asked for names of U.S. citizens previously masked in intelligence reports.
Sure, it's possible all that spying on U.S. citizens, all those unmaskings, were on the up and up.
http://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/399448-whatever-happened-to-the-unmaskings-probe
To alleviate worries that citizens' rights might be violated through "Incidental" spying on foreign targets, the intel agencies adopted strict rules.
An official who is a bad actor may want to monitor a U.S. citizen - say, a political enemy or a journalist - but knows he could never get wiretap approval from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
Later, he builds a case for "Unmasking" the U.S. citizen's name, supposedly for national security or other crucial reasons.
The U.S. citizens are usually none the wiser.
Later, she admitted on MSNBC that she had asked for names of U.S. citizens previously masked in intelligence reports.
Sure, it's possible all that spying on U.S. citizens, all those unmaskings, were on the up and up.
http://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/399448-whatever-happened-to-the-unmaskings-probe
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