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- noun The collection of too much money in
taxes .
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- Following up on their report in April detailing the National Security Agency's systemic and significant "overcollection" - that is, illegal interception - of Americans 'domestic communications, James Risen and Eric Lichbtblau of the New York Times have just published a new story with even more detail about the NSA's ongoing warrantless ...
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- Following up on their report in April detailing the National Security Agency's systemic and significant "overcollection" - that is, illegal interception - of Americans 'domestic communications, James Risen and Eric Lichbtblau of the New York Times have just published a new story with even more detail about the NSA's ongoing warrantless ...
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Even after Congress widened the legal parameters for future intercepts in 2008, the NSA continued to push the boundaries of its activities, engaging in what the New York Times politely termed the systematic "overcollection" of electronic communications among American citizens.
Alfred W. McCoy: How America's Wars Are Systematically Destroying Our Liberties 2009
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The Times, quoting unnamed intelligence officials, described the intercepts as a significant 'overcollection' of domestic communications of Americans, one that went beyond limits set by Congress last year in approving an expansion of U.S. secret wiretaps.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Problems in Wiretapping Bring Change 2009
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The Times, quoting unnamed intelligence officials, described the intercepts as a significant "overcollection" of domestic communications of Americans, one that went beyond limits set by Congress last year in approving an expansion of U.S. secret wiretaps. '
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Problems in Wiretapping Bring Change 2009
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But according to the Times, the agency engaged in "overcollection" of "significant amounts" of domestic traffic.
Wired Top Stories 2009
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This was the case regarding the "overcollection" of intelligence data, in which the F.B.I. collected more evidence than a court had authorized.
True to its History, FBI is Still Violating Civil Liberties 2006
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Three years after EFF brought its cases to court, the reported last year that the NSA was engaging in systemic "overcollection" of Americans 'private e-mails and phone messages.
AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed AlterNet Daniela Perdomo 2010
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Three years after EFF brought its cases to court, the reported last year that the NSA was engaging in systemic "overcollection" of Americans 'private e-mails and phone messages.
AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed AlterNet Daniela Perdomo 2010
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Three years after EFF brought its cases to court, the reported last year that the NSA was engaging in systemic "overcollection" of Americans 'private e-mails and phone messages.
AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed AlterNet Daniela Perdomo 2010
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