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Though all the ruckus caused by the NSA’s inappropriate behavior seems to be a recent development, it’s really not. It’s fishy, peeky nature has never been classified information, as was so brilliantly revealed in an article by David Burnham in the New York Times 30 years ago.
Burnham raised this issue in 1983 following the case of Government surveillance over of Abdeen Jabara, a Michigan-born lawyer who for many years worked with Arab-American citizens and alien residents.
A Federal Court of Appeals ruled that the largest intelligence agency of the United States, the National Security Agency, basically intercepted his overseas communications, as those of other Americans, even if the latter were not suspected in any unlawful activity.
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