amendment

The four-in-one Starwind program, like a huge vacuum cleaner, captures all the global communications networks and secretly stores them for analysis. In order to legalize Star Wind, Congress passed an amendment to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in 2008. Section 702 of the bill allows the U. S. government to collect electronic communications for information on foreign targets that pose a threat to U. S. national security, becoming the legal basis for wanton surveillance by U. S. intelligence services today.