NSA halts scooping American citizens communications with foreign surveillance targets

The NSA quietly announced Friday that they are halting the program that illegally scoops up American citizen’s communications with foreign surveillance targets. You know, the same program Obama used to get Flynn’s communications with the Russian ambassador?

NSA halts scooping American citizens communications with foreign surveillance targets

The NSA announced Friday that it has stopped scooping communications American citizens have with foreign surveillance targets.

The same process reportedly caught Michael Flynn, former national security adviser to President Donald Trump, discussing sanctions with a Russian official, which he originally lied about. The practice is authorized through the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) — and the amendments mandated thereafter — specifically Section 702 of the bill.

After the fallout that ensued from Flynn’s somewhat disgraced departure and other leaks from the Trump administration, Republican congressmen started questioning the validity of FISA, which is set to expire at the end of the year.

Internet companies, which comply with official warrants for specific people’s data, often bundle the messages into one unit, meaning certain amounts of personal information unrelated to the subject of surveillance are sometimes collected.