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To: HPilot who wrote (81928)	6/29/2010 2:09:31 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

specifically i meant email: +++ pbs.org We were operating on a system of very particularized, very targeted surveillance in this country. It had to be focused on individuals. [Did the Patriot Act change that?] ... Some of the changes in the Patriot Act took the targeted measures where they could go after one person's records, and suddenly the authorities meant they could look at the entire database. That wasn't really debated much in Congress. It was something that was for the ease of operation [of] the surveillance people, but it meant that millions of Americans' ordinary records were getting swept up in ways they hadn't previously. ... One big change that most people haven't quite seen is that before the Patriot Act, you could get a national security letter, one of these special [letters] without a judge, get the phone records letters, but it would be about one person -- just about me. But now the language was changed so the government can get the entire database, and that's just a little change in the language. NSL, national security letters, get X -- but X went from the suspect to being the entire database. And that applies to everything: telephone records -- Telephone records, financial records, your credit histories, and it applies to the other kind of orders for any kind of record in the American eco