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CREEPY OBAMA CONTINUES TO SHRED OUR CIVIL LIBERTIES--AND AS A CONSTITUTIONAL LAWYER HIS ACTIONS ARE PARTICULARLY DISGRACEFUL. BREAKING NEWS - MINUTES AGO: The Guardian's Glenn Greenwald reports that the government is monitoring millions of Americans' phone calls "indiscriminately and in bulk – regardless of whether they are suspected of any wrongdoing." Sign our petition demanding that the House and Senate Judiciary Committees immediately investigate this government surveillance. A leaked government order reveals that the Obama administration is getting every domestic phone record of every Verizon customer. But not just Verizon customers are being spied on -- we all are. "The numbers of both parties on a call are handed over, as is location data, call duration, unique identifiers, and the time and duration of all calls," reports The Guardian. It's simply unacceptable. When the executive branch conspires with big corporations to violate the privacy of Americans, it's the job of the legislative branch to investigate. Can you sign the petition demanding that Congress investigate and reveal its findings to the public? SIGN: BOLDPROGRESSIVES FROM THE GLENN GREENWALD FOR THE GUARDIAN: I wonder why the US news won't be reporting on this? Because the gov't controls our news! "The document shows for the first time that under the Obama administration the communication records of millions of US citizens are being collected indiscriminately and in bulk – regardless of whether they are suspected of any wrongdoing. The secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (Fisa) granted the order to the FBI on April 25, giving the government unlimited authority to obtain the data for a specified three-month period ending on July 19. Under the terms of the blanket order, the numbers of both parties on a call are handed over, as is location data, call duration, unique identifiers, and the time and duration of all calls. The contents of the conversation itself are not covered. The disclosure is likely to reignite longstanding debates in the US over the proper extent of the government's domestic spying powers. Under the Bush administration, officials in security agencies had disclosed to reporters the large-scale collection of call records data by the NSA, but this is the first time significant and top-secret documents have revealed the continuation of the practice on a massive scale under President Obama. The unlimited nature of the records being handed over to the NSA is extremely unusual. Fisa court orders typically direct the production of records pertaining to a specific named target who is suspected of being an agent of a terrorist group or foreign state, or a finite set of individually named targets. The Guardian approached the National Security Agency, the White House and the Department of Justice for comment in advance of publication on Wednesday. All declined." MORE: GUARDIAN