NSA Has been using a 1981 Executive Order to Circumvent Congress and the Constitution

The NSA has been secretly using a Presidential Executive Order issued back in 1981 to justify everything it does and not an actual democratic law issued by Congress no less the Constitution. Documents released by the U. S. government suddenly reveal, thanks to the ACLU, that the NSA views an executive order issued in 1981 as the basis of most of the National Security Agency’s surveillance activities.

This post was published at Armstrong Economics on September 29, 2014.