05.08.2013 - 08:05 [ the Hill ]

Judge: Patriot Act snooping was accepted by phone companies

Verizon and other telephone companies didn‘t protest when a secret surveillance court demanded that they turn over records on all of their customers.

In a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee leaders on Monday, Judge Reggie Walton of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) Court revealed that no telephone company or other service provider has ever resisted a court order under Section 215 of the Patriot Act.