There is still far too much that remains secret. 'The past few months have seen the tides turn dramatically in EFF's ongoing battle against secret surveillance law. The EFF also isn't satisfied with how things have gone so far, according to an EFF statement before Monday's documents were released. 'Like previous releases, these materials show the danger of a government that sidesteps public debate and instead grounds its surveillance powers in the secret opinions of a secret court.' 'On the logic of these opinions, almost every digital footprint we leave behind can be vacuumed up by the government - who we talk to, what we read, where we go online,' said ACLU Patrick Toomey, an ACLU National Security Project attorney, in a statement. Lawsuits from the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Freedom Foundation helped push the government into publishing the documents. Although redactions made it difficult to identify specific issues, a statement released with the documents Monday indicated that 'longstanding compliance issues' were identified in 2009, leading the agency to recognize that its 'compliance and oversight structure had not kept pace with its operational momentum.' The documents also show that the NSA had trouble keeping its data collection within the court-mandated limits. Bush in the wake of the September 2001 terrorist attacks, was discontinued in 2011 for what the Obama administration called 'operational and resource reasons.' The metadata collection program, which was authorized by President George W. 'Analysts know that terrorists' e-mails are located somewhere in the billions of data bits what they cannot know ahead of time is exactly where,' the judge wrote. Appeals court finds NSA's bulk phone data collection was unlawful.Amazon names ex-NSA chief Keith Alexander to its board.

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The documents also reveal the NSA's violations of court-ordered limits of the program. Clapper Jr., the director of national intelligence, in response to Freedom of Information Act lawsuits.

The ruling by the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court was among hundreds of documents released by James R. The Obama administration released a trove of newly declassified documents related to the National Security Agency's surveillance activities on Monday, including what appears to be the original secret court ruling authorizing the massive data collection program.

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