The government on Wednesday made public portions of three secret court opinions detailing government violations of surveillance rules, in which some Americans’ electronic communications were swept up over a three-year period.The partially-redacted opinions, issued in 2011 and 2012, concern the National Security Agency’s violation of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which governs the targeting of non-U.S. persons outside U.S.
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