Privacy Advocates: With PRISM, FBI Has No 'Going Dark' Argument
Experts say the recently-uncovered PRISM program means the FBI
and NSA have no problem accessing data.  (AP Photo)  A copy of
the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court order requiring
Verizon on an "ongoing, daily basis," to give the NSA
information on all landline and mobile telephone calls.   The
National Security Administration is watching - but why is that a
surprise?  Recent news that the National Security Administration
has been secretly accessing millions of emails, phone records
and other electronic communications comes as no surprise to
those in the privacy community, who have been pushing for
details of government monitoring under the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act since at least July 2006, when the Electronic
Frontier Foundation sued AT&T for allegedly passing private data
about customers to the super-secret intelligence agency.  [READ:
Spy Chief Says Data Taps Analyzed Only for Reasonable Suspicion
Under that act, orig