Whistleblowers Say NSA May Keep Spying on Americans Despite Ending Spy Programme
The controversial Patriot Act, which was heavily criticised in the US for possible violations of civil liberties, was adopted in 2001 following the 9/11 attacks as a means to find and track terrorists using surveillance without being required to first get a court order.
Two former NSA officials, interviewed by the Insurge Intelligence journalism project, expressed their opinion that the National Security Agency (NSA) will never abandon its surveillance programme, which allows it to monitor the communications of all US citizens. This is despite the approaching expiry date of the Patriot Act and reports by The New York Times suggesting that the NSA has been putting the programme to rest "quietly".
According to one of the former officials, Russ Tice, a former senior NSA intelligence analyst, pointed out that the agency was already caught red handed carrying out unlawful surveillance of US citizens in May 2005. He further stated that there is no reason to believe the NSA now.
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