What is the President’s Surveillance Program? Which President authorized it? What does the program do and has it been a success?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The President’s Surveillance Program was created by President Bush after 9\/11. The purpose was to fight terrorism by gathering intelligence<\/a> through surveillance of phones and internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Learn more about the President’s Surveillance Program and how America’s influence on the internet magnifies the program’s impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n After 9\/11, George Bush came up with the President\u2019s Surveillance Program (PSP). A major part of this program was that the NSA could wiretap phone and Internet communication between the US and abroad without <\/em>a warrant from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC). <\/strong>The justification was the threat of terror. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This detail of the program was revealed to the public by whistleblowers in 2005. Public outcry ensued because the constitutionality of PSP was questionable. The program allegedly expired in 2007; however, the Protect America Act (2007) and FISA Amendments Act<\/a> (2008) retroactively legalized the PSP and immunized the companies that had helped with it. The language of the two new acts was intentionally misleading\u2014citizens thought their communications weren\u2019t being monitored, but the acts actually gave the NSA more power.<\/p>\n\n\n\nPresident\u2019s Surveillance Program (PSP)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n