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155. Ben Jacobs and Tim Mak, “Boehner May Not Have the Ability to Sue Obama
After All,” The Daily Beast, June 26, 2014; see also Richard Wolf, “High Court
Rules against Obama on Recess Appointments,” USA Today, June 26, 2014.
156. “H.R. 6304 (110th): FISA Amendments Act of 2008,” http://www.govtrack.
us/congress/bills/110/hr6304/text.
157. “DNI Statement on Activities Authorized Under Section 702 of FISA,”
Office of the Director of National Intelligence, http:/www.dni.gov/index.
php/newsroom/press-releases/191-press-releases-2013/869-dni-statement-
on-activities-authorized-under-section-702-of-fisa.
158. “NSA Slides Explain the PRISM Data-Collection Program,” The Washington
Post, June 6, 2013, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/
prism-collection-documents/.
159. Ibid.
160. Ibid.
161. Ibid.
162. Spencer Ackerman and James Ball, “NSA Loophole Allows Warrant-
less Search for U.S. Citizens’ Emails and Phone Calls,” The Guard-
ian, August 9, 2013, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/09/
nsa-loophole-warrantless-searches-email-calls#.
163. Ron Wyden and Mark Udall, open letter to Keith Alexander, June 24, 2013,
http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2013_cr/wyden-nsa.pdf.
164. Ellen Nakashima, “NSA Gathered Thousands of Americans’ e-mails before
Court Ordered It to Revise Its Tactics,” The Washington Post, August 21,
2013, http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-08-21/world/ 41431823_
1_court-opinion-chief-judge-government-surveillance.
165. Barton Gellman, “NSA Broke Privacy Rules Thousands of Times Per
Year, Audit Finds,” The Washington Post, August 15, 2013, http://www.
washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-broke-privacy-rules-
thousands-of-times-per-year-audit-finds/2013/08/15/3310e554-05ca-11e3-
a07f-49ddc7417125_story.html.
166. Benjamin Wittes, “The NSA, the Washington Post, and the Administration,”
Lawfare, August 18, 2013, http://www.lawfareblog.com/2013/08/the-nsa-
the-washington-post-and-the-administration/. This point also made by
Jennifer Rubin who argues: “If there are 20 million inquiries each month over
a year span that works out to 240,000,000. That equates to an error rate of
.00001156666. If the NSA figures are accurate this is the most airtight surveil-
lance program in history (“NSA Scandal or Near-Perfection?” The Washing-
ton Post, August 18, 2013, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/
wp/2013/08/18/nsa-scandal-or-near-perfection/).
167. Wittes, “The NSA, the Washington Post, and the Administration.”
168. Gellman, “NSA Broke Privacy Rules Thousands of Times per Year, Audit Finds.”
169. Wittes, “The NSA, the Washington Post, and the Administration.”
170. Andrea Peterson, “LOVEINT: When NSA Officers Use Their Spy-
ing Power on Love Interests,” The Washington Post, August 24, 2013,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/24/
loveint-when-nsa-officers-use-their-spying-power-on-love-interests/.