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This was a routine renewal of such warrants that go back to 2006. Unlike what is being portrayed by the Right Wing noise machine, these are phone records used by NSA to help fill in the blanks about terrorist networks. It is not wire-tapping (i.e., listening in on calls), but getting records of calls placed after the fact that are then fed into computer to try to figure out said networks. If judges have been routinely granting the waiver under existing provisions of the Patriot Act for the past 7 years, it is not an indictment of Obama, but of the Patriot Act itself. If the Right is now so concerned about this program that they birthed, they should be the first to step up and try to repeal it.
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