Showing posts with label NSA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NSA. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Interview w/ ex-CIA Robert David Steele - Q, NSA, Zionism, #GoogleGestapo & #UNRIG (video)

https://youtu.be/z9GTRwjpZLo

http://robertdavidsteele.com (see Nobel level ideas on landing page)
http://phibetaiota.net (free subscription no email)
http://tinyurl.com/GoogleGestapo (Deep State / Zionist censorship system in detail)
http://tinyurl.com/pdeoempire (free book on line by the chapter, 11 chapters published so far) http://tinyurl.com/pedoempiredonate (author Joachim Hagopian's IndieGoGo page, please donate to finish the book)
http://www.jordansather.com 





Sunday, November 12, 2017

Security Breach and Spilled Secrets Have Shaken the N.S.A. to Its Core

Security Breach and Spilled Secrets Have Shaken the N.S.A. to Its Core

A serial leak of the agency’s cyberweapons has damaged morale, slowed intelligence
operations and resulted in hacking attacks on businesses and civilians worldwide.



Monday, August 21, 2017

Wikileaks Disclosure About Ultra Secret NSA Military Base at Pine Gap (Area 51 of Australia)

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Pine Gap Base: World Context (Area 51 of Australia)


From Dr. Jean Francois Gille, who moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico from France, comes a translation of a French document that exposes the relationship between several factors in the matrix of world affairs. The article, titled - 'PINE GAP BASE: WORLD CONTEXT', was written by Lucien Cometta and later translated into English by Dr. John Gille:
"In order to understand the case of the Pine Gap US base (near Alice Springs, Australia) better, I feel compelled to give some explanations beforehand. I hope these explanations will help to increase the general awareness of the extraordinary importance that facility has for mankind as a whole. "The majority of people, all over the world, are not lingering in doubt as to whether UFOs and ETs are real. They know they are real. Here in early 1989, no one questions their existence. The case for UFOs and ETs aroused passions, controversies and grandstanding for many years. Some of it has not been quite rational. The matter being relatively settled, public opinions should cool down. It is with a serene and clear mind that we ought to be thinking of our future relationship with the peoples from space. However, the public mind is not at peace. It vaguely feels that the governments are hiding "something real big", and it wonders where our leaders are going to lead mankind. "During the process of research and study of UFOs and aliens, researchers who do not take the explanations of the scientific establishment at face value have discovered unsettling facts; these facts have started the lifting off (of) the lid of the coverup. The value and prestige of their sources of information do not leave any doubt about the truthfulness of these reports; the main outlines are summarized below."
PINE GAP 

"The United States has three major bases in Australia. One is in South Australia (Nurranger, near Woomera, T.N.), another in New South Wales, and the third (and by far the largest) is located within about 230 km (143 miles) of the geographical center of the continent, not far to the west of Alice Springs (Northern Territory), at the foothills of the southern slopes of the MacDonnell Range. This base is completely underground, with barely visible entrances to the surface. 
 
"This 'Top Secret' base is entirely financed by the United States Government, and is officially known as the Joint Defense Space Research Facility. 
 
"When the JDSRF was first initiated, its aim was scientific research for the supposed development of a space defense technology. It is now known that since its inception, its primary purpose was research into electromagnetic propulsion. 

Thursday, July 27, 2017

Bezos Becomes World’s Richest Man As Whistleblower Exposes NSA & CIA Collusion with Amazon

A person claiming to be a former data center tech at Amazon implicates the company in working directly with the NSA and CIA to domestically spy on Americans.

By Jay Syrmopoulos - July 27, 2017
http://thefreethoughtproject.com


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Washington, D.C. – Amazon, and its owner Jeff Bezos, who recently surpassed Bill Gates to become the richest man in the world – and who has a $600 million dollar contract with the CIA – have come under fire after a purported whistleblower implicated the company of collusion with the CIA and NSA to spy on Americans.

Bezos, who also owns one of the main propaganda outlets in the United States, The Washington Post, is a controversial figure, who has deep ties to the national security apparatus. He is a former Bilderburger, who has enmeshed his corporations with the national security state.


After building Amazon into an e-commerce behemoth, CEO Jeff Bezos purchased the ailing 140-year-old media goliath in 2013 for $250 million — but his lack of experience in media raised the eyebrows of that industry and much of the business world. The same year Bezos purchased the Post, Amazon landed a $600 million deal with the CIA to develop a coordinated computing cloud for all 17 agencies of the U.S. intelligence community.



Although innocuous on the surface, that sizable deal appears somewhat darker in consideration of this year’s quasi-official continuance of the U.S. government’s most notorious propaganda program, Operation Mockingbird — during which intelligence agents posed as the media to imbue pro-American propaganda and censor certain information.

Now, a person claiming to be a former tech at one of Amazon’s data centers, which operates “under the purview of VADATA, Inc.” — in an effort to conceal its relationship to Amazon – made a detailed, and scathing claim, which directly implicates the company in working directly with the NSA and CIA to domestically spy on Americans hosting their data on AWS servers.

Tuesday, June 27, 2017

NSA Software Behind Latest Global Ransomware Attack




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http://www.zerohedge.com

"It's like WannaCry all over again," said Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer with Helsinki's cybersecurity firm F-Secure, when discussing today's latest outbreak of the WannaCry-like ransomeware attack, which as we reported earlier started in Ukraine, and has since spread to corporate systems across the world, affecting Russian state oil giant Rosneft, the international shipping and energy conglomerate Maersk, and the UK public relations company WPP, before jumping across the Atlantic and going global, by infecting the US-based division of global pharma giant Merck, which this morning confirmed it has been hit by the "Petya" attack.

“We confirm our company’s computer network was compromised today as part of global hack,” Merck said in a statement on Tuesday. “Other organizations have also been affected. We are investigating the matter and will provide additional information as we learn more.”

Merck employees were instructed to disconnect all mobile devices from the company network and advised not to speak to reporters or post messages on social media accounts.

Computers at Merck facilities in Pennsylvania and New Jersey locked up Tuesday morning around 8am local time, according to the Inquirer.

Wednesday, January 4, 2017

Kent Dunn Intel Update - List of Bribed Republican Politicians, Nuclear Bombs Defused In New York, CIA vs NSA Gun Battle, & More - January 4, 2017



Notes, Commentary, and Additional Research by: AscensionWithEarth.Com
Intel Report by: Kent Dunn
Date: January 4, 2017


A List of Names of Bribed Republican Party Leaders Paid Off By Hillary Clinton



A computer hard drive that belonged to the Clinton Foundation was stolen back in 2009.  It contained information related to the 'pizzagate & pedogate' pedophilia network, including billionaire Jeffrey Epstein's pedophile island, also information about Hillary Clinton selling chemical weapons to Iraq.  Which was a false flag operation to give the USA Corporation a reason to go to war with Saddam Hussein in Iraq.  This hard drive is now in the hands of the agency White Hats and the contents of this hard drive are scheduled to be released through Wikileaks headed by Julian Assange.

Kent Dunn says that when Hillary Clinton was running against Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign, her Super PAC was bribing the republican leadership that were running against Donald Trump.

Side note: Research shows that Hillary Clinton's largest Super PAC supporter, Priorities USA Action, raised a total of $192,052,125 according to OpenSecrets.Org. George Soros was listed as the largest donor of this Super PAC at $6 million.

Kent Dunn continues to name all the elite politicians that accepted bribes from Hillary Clinton's Super PACs.

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Bribed Politicians

Kent Dunn says that Paul Ryan is turning against Trump including personally attacking Assange saying that Assange is 'a sycophant for Russia' .  Most people at this point in time know that it was the White Hats in the CIA and NSA that was handing off the information to a former English Ambassador, named Craig Murray.  Ambassador Craig Murray publicly came out in December 2016 and testified that it was people from inside the United States that gave him Hillary Clinton's emails and declared it was not Russia.

You can read Ambassador Murray's public testimony about this situation from the Daily Mail UK here, or Zero Hedge here.  Even former CIA White Hat Black Ops Commander, Dr. Steve Pieczenik claims that the WikiLeaks emails from Hillary and John Podesta are from multiple US agencies and not Russia.

Later in the video, Kent Dunn says that they, the six republicans named, will all have to answer as to why they have taken money from the Super PACs of Hillary Clinton.   The reason for these bribes was to turn the republican political leadership against Donald Trump so that Hillary Clinton would win the 2016 presidential election.


CIA vs. NSA - Gun battle between the Intelligence Agencies on the streets of Manhattan, New York


NSA Building In Manhattan, NY
Kent Dunn gives more information about the gun fight that happened on the streets of Manhattan, New York, between the CIA and NSA.  Apparently CIA forces attacked personnel from the NSA at around 4:00am in the morning.  A CIA operation called, TITAN POINT, was initiated in order to find the information leaks that were coming out of the NSA communication 'listening hub' located at an old AT&T building at 33 Thomas Street, known as the Long Lines Building.

Side Note: Kent Dunn states in the video that TITAN POINT is the name of the CIA operation, whereas Dr. William Mount and Sorcha Faal have reported today that TITANPOINTE is the call sign of the NSA 'listening' station in Manhattan.

It reads like a spy thriller novel but according to the New York Daily News, police officers reported that there was a car chase that took place and the two drivers involved, began firing their guns from

Dr. William Mount Intel Update - CIA Attacks NSA Hub In Manhattan, New York - January 4, 2017



https://youtu.be/wBdwOCMSCAw


Monday, October 31, 2016

Benjamin Fulford Update - October 31, 2016

The message for the Khazarian mafia is trick or treat surrender or die




It is time to get out the pitchforks and guns folks and storm the palaces of the Khazarian mafia’s top gangsters. This has been confirmed in a letter many sources confirm that Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph Dunford sent to every member of the US military. In the letter Dunford says: “Every service member swears ‘to support and defend the Constitution of the United States’ and to ‘bear true faith and allegiance to the same.’”

This is a direct order from your top general to defend the constitution. What does the constitution say? It says “The Congress shall have Power To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin,” and to “provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States.” In other words you are obliged by your Constitutional Oath to go after the Federal Reserve Board and the crime families that own it and have been forging so-called US dollars ever since 1913. Furthermore, you must confiscate the vast amounts of property belonging to US citizens that these crime families have stolen.

In his letter Dunford also mentions “our deliberate and disciplined commitment to upholding the principle of civilian control of the military.” Since elections are being stolen and have been since at least the year 2000 that means civilians are no longer in charge so General Dunford is ordering you to go to Washington DC and force the return to civilian control of the government. That means restoring genuine democracy and freedom of the press so that an informed population can choose their own government. This government the military would then serve.

Sunday, October 16, 2016

Judge Napolitano: The NSA, Not Russia, Hacked the DNC

In Judge Napolitano’s Chambers on Fox, Judge Andrew Napolitano explained why the NSA, not the Russian government, is to blame for hacking the DNC email servers.

https://youtu.be/a9xgcR4yF5Y

Wednesday, October 5, 2016

Bombshell: YAHOO secretly scanned ALL emails for NSA, FBI


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By Joseph Menn | SAN FRANCISCO
 
Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers' incoming emails for specific information provided by U.S. intelligence officials, according to people familiar with the matter.
The company complied with a classified U.S. government demand, scanning hundreds of millions of Yahoo Mail accounts at the behest of the National Security Agency or FBI, said three former employees and a fourth person apprised of the events.

Some surveillance experts said this represents the first case to surface of a U.S. Internet company agreeing to an intelligence agency's request by searching all arriving messages, as opposed to examining stored messages or scanning a small number of accounts in real time.

It is not known what information intelligence officials were looking for, only that they wanted Yahoo to search for a set of characters. That could mean a phrase in an email or an attachment, said the sources, who did not want to be identified.

Monday, October 3, 2016

Secret US military bases in Australia are putting the country at risk


https://youtu.be/YkxMbI_hirs 

US military bases in Australia: Protecting us or putting us at risk?



The United States is strengthening a network of secretive military bases across Australia that could be used for waging wars against our interests, it was claimed at a weekend summit.

Instead of fostering crucial relationships, we are allowing the US to create enemies for us with its growing strategic presence on our soil, say the academics, politicians and campaigners who gathered for the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network (IPAN) conference attended by news.com.au in Alice Springs this weekend.

Under a burning hot sun in the red centre, experts and citizens shared their fears over what is happening in the most remote parts of the country. These mysterious bases may be invisible to the majority of us living in the most populated regions along the coast, but could threaten the fabric of all our lives. Here’s what you need to know:

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A bird’s eye view of North West Cape, one of the most structurally-intimidating military bases in Australia. 


Continue reading at ......... http://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/us-military-bases-in-australia-protecting-us-or-putting-us-at-risk/news-story/274681984ca0959242829f9da8fa338e

Thursday, September 15, 2016

Confirmation of Corey Goode's Testimony about Antarctica & Underground E.T Bases

I found this article from Linda Moulton Howe very interesting as it correlates some of the testimony presented by Corey Goode.  Whistle-blower Brian, a retired Navy Flight Engineer, has pinpointed locations on a map of Antarctica that show areas where underground E.T. bases are, including the inner earth entrance near the "no fly zone" next to the south pole.  Additional information about the suppression of an archaeological dig that found ancient civilization structures beneath the Antarctica ice. You can listen to Linda's interview with Brian at the following link and continue reading the full article.

Read and listen to full article at .... https://www.earthfiles.com/news.php?ID=2440&category=Science

Read more here ...... http://www.navyufo.org/2015/04/us-navy-flight-engineer-reportedly-saw.html

~enerchi
ascensionwithearth.com

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“The U. S. government said it will seek to block the airing of a video
found by Navy rescuers in Antarctica that purportedly reveals that a massive
archaeological dig is underway two miles beneath the ice.”
- Monday, March 18, 2002, web news release at 5:25 AM EDT
from AMP, Atlantis Mapping Project, Washington, D. C.

“We were told not to talk among ourselves officially. But the guys after
a flight, you have a few beers and it's like, 'I heard these scientists talking about
that there's some guys there at Pole that were working with these strange-looking
'men.' They weren't saying, you know, 'alien' or 'extraterrestrial,' or whatever.
And that the air sampling station (big hole in the ice) was actually a
joint base with the scientists and the E.T.s.”
- Brian, retired Navy Flight Engineer, Antarctic Development Squadron Six




https://youtu.be/ofxwHVyOBcU

Locations provided by Whistleblower Brian


Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Edward Snowden: "The NSA steals and produces sex tapes to use them for blackmail"

Edward Snowden: "The NSA steals and produces sex tapes to use them for blackmail"
Source: Hot Topics

August 2, 2016


National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden, has made a new controversial claim yesterday, saying that he possessed some classified information proving that the NSA is stealing and even producing pornographic pictures and videos, in order to blackmail various individuals around the world.

Snowden, who lives as a fugitive in Russia after leaking documents about the NSA's surveillance programs has made some previously unreported allegations concerning the “illegal tactics” of the NSA, during an interview with the Moscow Tribune.

According to him, the Special Collection Service (SCS) of the NSA has been stealing and collecting amateur pornographic material since the 1990s, accumulating over 500 million hours of video and more than 20 billion pictures.

This pornographic material which is stolen from cell phones and computers around the world, is then analyzed and sorted in terms of potential value.

Many of these images are then used to blackmail politicians and other influential people, forcing them to collaborate with the agency or face public sex scandals.

Mr. Snowden claims that this program has already caused the fall of many politicians, including former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who resigned in March 2008, and David Petraeus, who resigned as Director of the CIA in November 2012.

Thursday, August 18, 2016

Snowden: NSA Hack Is a Serious Warning from Russia to the United States

CONFIRMED: NSA Hacked, Information Auctioned At 1 Million Bitcoin



https://youtu.be/dkx-CVlrEE8

In this video Luke Rudkowski covers the latest news of how the offensive branch of the NSA was recently hacked and the information is being auctioned off at 1 million bitcoins right now.



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Snowden: NSA Hack Is a Serious Warning from Russia to the United States



by Alice Salles, The Anti Media:

In a series of tweets, former National Security Administration (NSA) contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden explained that recent attacks against a cyber-espionage organization tied to the NSA may be a warning worth heeding.

Members of the Equation Group, an organization of powerful hackers often associated with the NSA, was recently the target of a cyber attack. One of the items allegedly stolen was the attack code Equation cyberspies use regularly, also known as a “cyber weapon.” During an online auction, hackers allegedly involved with the attack offered to sell their discoveries to the highest bidder.

According to Snowden, the hack itself is not news, but the fact hackers used the opportunity to expose these cyber weapons is. “The hack of an NSA malware staging server is not unprecedented, but the publication of the take is,” he wrote on Twitter.




Because a “rival publicly demonstrating” they have been able to crack the NSA’s code is unheard of, Snowden went on to argue, this attack is likely a message from Moscow.

Tuesday, December 8, 2015

The NSA’s Extraterrestrial Message On Their Website!

The NSA’s Extraterrestrial Message On Their Website!

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Not a lot of people realise this but the NSA have on their website proof of Extraterrestrial contact under the title “Key to the Extraterrestrial messages”.

This is a hugely important step towards Disclosure and something which is far too overlooked by the UFO community. The original document was cleared for public release back in October 2004, but strangely not ‘officially’ released into the Public Domain until April 2011! Such an important document needs to be seen by the world as this is on the NSA’s actual website, sat there waiting for all to see. We want Disclosure of Alien contact, then here you go!

This one small step, yet ‘Giant Leap For Mankind’, is best described as a ‘treasure trove’. Of the documents available, one is particularly interesting from the NSA Technical Journal Vol XIV No 1 with FOIA Case number 41472 which has been titled ‘Extraterrestrial Intelligence’. The document authored by a Dr. Campaigne, presents a series of 29 messages received from outer space. Here’s an extremely interesting snippet from the journal:

“Recently a series of radio messages was heard coming from outer space. The transmission was not continuous, but cut by pauses into pieces which could be taken as units, for they were repeated over and over again. The pauses show here as punctuation. The various combination have been represented by letters of the alphabet, so that the messages can be written down. Each message except the first is given here only once. The serial number of the messages has been supplied for each reference.”

If anybody ever mocks you for believing in Aliens, then please feel free to steer them towards the NSA’s website!

Saturday, June 6, 2015

FREEDOM Act passes, effectively kills freedom

The Freedom Act is no victory for actual freedom

 Jade Helm


By Brandon Turbeville | Activist Post

With the passage of the USA FREEDOM Act, mainstream media outlets and even some “privacy advocates” are hailing the passage of the bill as a welcome step forward and a sign of defeat for the USA PATRIOT Act, the bill that was itself passed in the wake of the 9/11 attacks and widely representative of the United States’ rapid descent into outright police state tyranny.
Unfortunately, however, the passage of the FREEDOM Act is no victory for freedom. In fact, is an insultingly sound nail in freedom’s coffin.

The bill, which has been promoted and supported by many of the same members of Congress that supported the PATRIOT Act (notably, James Sensenbrenner) now comes on the heels of a 2nd US Circuit Court decision that bulk telecommunications data collection was not authorized by the PATRIOT Act, unconstitutional, and therefore an illegal act.

To be sure, the FREEDOM Act has been in the works for passage since 2013 when lawmakers began pushing it. At the time, the bill attempted to actually extend the PATRIOT Act provisions through the end of 2017 as well as maintain a number of violations of civil liberties and privacy concerns.
The new version of the FREEDOM Act is no better, except perhaps in the language being used to promote it.

Saturday, May 23, 2015

Senate blocks measures to extend NSA program


Washington (CNN)Opponents of the National Security Agency's bulk collection of telephone data successfully blocked multiple attempts in the Senate early Saturday morning to extend the expiring law that authorizes the program.

The developments, coming in a rare overnight session, leave in doubt the ability of Congress to keep alive the Patriot Act program that many feel is critical to national security but has also alarmed privacy advocates for its sweeping nature.

First, the Senate blocked two separate measures. The first, a House-passed bill that would shift responsibility for holding data from the government to telecommunications companies, while also imposing stricter limitations on how authorities could access the information, failed in a 57-42 vote. The second measure was a two-month extension beyond the current law's June 1 expiration date, which was voted down 54-45.

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Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul, who's also seeking his party's nomination for President, led the charge against the program, repeatedly objecting to requests from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to extend it by just a few days. 

"We have entered into a momentous debate," said Paul, who said he objected because his request for a guarantee of two amendments on a future bill dealing with the NSA program was denied. "This is a debate about whether a warrant with a single name of a single company can be used to collect all of the phone records of all of the people in our country with a single warrant. Our forefathers would be aghast."

Friday, May 22, 2015

Highest Ranking NSA Whistle-Blower Addresses The UFO Question – This Is What He Had To Say

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by Arjun Walia, CollectiveEvolution

ust as Edward Snowden made huge headlines (and still is) all over the world, William Binney did the same in 2001 when he resigned from the National Security Agency (NSA) after 9/11 and blew the lid on an NSA mass surveillance program.

He worked for the agency for more than thirty years, and was the leading code-breaker against the Soviet Union during the Cold War. He’s had quite the run, starting in 2002 when he let the public know of a system (‘trailblazer’) intended to analyze data carried on communication networks (like the internet). He exposed the agencies eavesdropping program and has faced harassment from the FBI, NSA and more. He has been in and out of the court room ever since he decided to resign and blow the whistle.

Here is a quick Wiki write up about him, a simple Google search will confirm who he is for those who have never heard of him.

Binney was recently interviewed on 9/11 Free Fall Radio, where he said:

Thursday, May 14, 2015

House votes to reform NSA surveillance with USA Freedom Act

By Colin Lecher on May 13, 2015

https://www.eff.org/files/nsa-all-your-data.pngToday the House of Representatives passed the USA Freedom Act, a measure to end the NSA's bulk collection of metadata. The bill received broad support in the House, with 338 votes for the bill and 88 against, but will now face a tougher road in the Senate.

The Patriot Act's Section 215 expires June 1st

The vote's timing was no coincidence: on June 1st, the NSA's authority to obtain phone metadata, granted by Section 215 of the Patriot Act, will expire. Rather than granting a full renewal of that authority, the Freedom Act keeps that metadata in the hands of telecoms, who can search for the information after receiving a court order that specifies information like a person or account. The bill also takes transparency measures, giving telecoms more options to publicly report on national security requests.

The bill is meant to bridge the divide between Democrats hoping to fully end the NSA's power and Republicans hoping for a full renewal under the Patriot Act's Section 215. (President Barack Obama has also thrown his support behind the bill.) But the Freedom Act has still proven controversial: last year, a version of the bill was passed in the House, but eventually voted down in the Senate

Civil rights groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation have declined to support the new bill, arguing that it doesn't go far enough to stop NSA spying. Meanwhile, high-ranking Senate Republicans — including Majority Leader Mitch McConnell — have publicly denounced the bill, with some hoping instead to pass a so-called "clean" renewal of the Patriot Act. While the House was expected to approve the bill, its chances for survival in the Senate are much less clear.

http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/13/8601533/house-passes-usa-freedom-act-nsa

Thursday, May 7, 2015

CNN Breaking News: Federal Court rules NSA program illegal




Washington (CNN)A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that the National Security Agency's controversial collection of Americans' phone records, the subject of documents leaked by Edward Snowden, is not legal under the Patriot Act.

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals held in the case, which was brought by the ACLU, that the telephone metadata collection program "exceeds the scope of what Congress has authorized." The court did not rule on a larger Constitutional issue and sent the case back down to a lower court for further proceedings. 

The program gathers up bulk telephone records to enable targeted searches based on telephone numbers or other identifiers associated with terrorist organizations.

A three-judge panel held that the text of the Patriot Act "cannot bear the weight the government asks us to assign to it and that it does not authorize the telephone metadata program."

"If Congress chooses to authorize such a far-reaching and unprecedented program, it has every opportunity to do so, unambiguously," the court said. "Until such times as it does so, however, we decline to deviate from widely accepted interpretations of well-established legal standards. "