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=NSA bulk data collection violates constitutional rights, ACLU argues= Author: Dominic Rushe
 * Subject:** The action the American Civil Liberties Union has taken against the NSA, including taking it to court.
 * Occasion:** The ACLU filed a lawsuit against the NSA because they believe that the 1st and 4th ammendment have been violated by the NSA. So far, all attempts to put a stop to the NSA have proven to be fruitless.
 * Audience:** The general american public, governments who are looking to start similar surveillance programs, and those who interact with americans through the internet or phone but aren't from America.
 * Purpose:** To keep people up to date on the situation involving NSA surveillance, and what is being done to combat it.
 * Speaker:** The Gaurdian
 * Tone:** serious, informative, educated, wary, frank, alarming

=[|6 reasons you should, and shouldn't, freak out about the NSA data-mining]= Author:Peter Weber 1. "The seeming contradictions in how we treat different threats suggest that we aren't trading civil liberties for security, but a // sense // of security. We aren't empowering the national-security state so that we're safer, but so we // feel // safer.... Ceding liberty and privacy to keep myself safe from terrorism doesn't even guarantee that I'll be safer! It's possible that the surveillance state will prove invasive and ineffective...."
 * Subject:** The things you should be wary of in regards to the NSA, like the fact that "unchecked surveillance threatens democracy", or the fact that this data could be used for things other than just terrorist watch.
 * Occasion:** A recent leak of information of the NSA has lead to the American public in outrage, calling for change.
 * Audience:** The general american public, governments who are looking to start similar surveillance programs, and those who interact with americans through the internet or phone but aren't from America.
 * Purpose:** to provide basic background information on the NSA, and give both sides in a fairly unbiased way.
 * Speaker:** The Week
 * Tone:** Casual, informative, frank, wary, cautionary

= [|ACLU asks court to end NSA surveillance program that collects phone call data] = Author: Ellen Nakashima **Subject:**The case the ACLU made against the NSA, and how some of congress may not have been fully aware of what they voted on when the re-authorization of the Patriot Act in 2010 and 2011 **Occasion:** The ACLU is looking to change the way the NSA works, because they feel it is a violation of the constitution, and th at congress may not have seen the whole picture, so to speak, when they voted on the Patriot Act. **Audience:** Those who wish to stay informed on the topic of NSA surveillance **Purpose:** To keep the american public, and anyone else who wishes to know about it, informed on the situation regarding the NSA **Speaker:** The Washington Post **Tone:** serious, informative, unbiased, intuitive 1. " “a veteran congressman,” Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner Jr. (R-Wis.), submitted an amicus brief in the case “in which he said he had no idea of what was happening” when he voted to reauthorize Section 215."