KLAYMAN v. OBAMA et al

Filing 102

MOTION for Telephonic Status Conference by LARRY E. KLAYMAN, CHARLES STRANGE, MARY ANN STRANGE (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit 1 -- Associated Press article about Jimmy Carter, # 2 Exhibit 2 -- Transcript of President Obama's Remarks from March 25, 2014, # 3 Text of Proposed Order)(Klayman, Larry)

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Ex-President Carter fears US monitoring

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Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter speaks during an interview on Monday March 24, 2014 in New York. Carter
said Monday that he doesn't support the Palestinian-led "boycott, divest, sanction" campaign against Israel but said
products made in Israel-occupied Palestinian territories should be clearly labeled so buyers can make a choice
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NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Jimmy Carter said Monday that U.S. intelligence monitoring has run out of
control since the 9/11 terror attacks, and he now hand-writes and mails sensitive letters to foreign and American
leaders because he can't trust his email or telephone to be secure.

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He had begun this practice well before National Security Agency contract worker Edward Snowden leaked a trove of
documents last year. The documents disclosed that the NSA was archiving the meta-data on telephone calls and
emails and had secretly tapped into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers
around the world.
"I don't think there's any doubt now that the NSA or other agencies monitor or record almost every telephone call
made in the United States, including cellphones, and I presume email as well," Carter told The Associated Press in
an interview. "We've gone a long way down the road of violating Americans' basic civil rights, as far as privacy is
concerned."
Phone calls to the National Security Agency for comment on Carter's remarks were not immediately returned.
If intelligence services were monitoring Carter, they might gain insights into various hotspots and crises around the
world. Carter and his wife Rosalynn have visited more than 140 nations. The former president runs The Carter Center,
which has pursued human rights, humanitarian work and offered political mediation and election monitoring since he
left office in 1981.
Carter negotiated a nuclear disarmament pact with North Korea in 1994, which subsequently unraveled, and went to
Pyongyang again in 2010 to secure the release of a U.S. citizen who had been detained. He visited Syrian President
Bashar Assad in 2008, and has been to Cuba, Vietnam and many other countries of interest to U.S. intelligence.
Carter Center monitors have observed disputed elections in Venezuela and many other nations.
Carter is also one of the "Elders," a group formed by Nelson Mandela in 2007 that includes senior and retired leaders
who work together on peace-building and humanitarian initiatives. They include former Irish president Mary Robinson,
South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, former U.N. secretary-general Kofi Annan, and former Finnish president
Martti Ahtisaari.
Carter said the surveillance state is now so omniscient that he has turned to "snail mail" in an effort to avoid
snooping.
"For the last two or three years, when I want to write a highly personal letter to a foreign leader, or even some
American leaders, I hand-write it and mail it, because I feel that my telephone calls and my email are being
monitored, and there are some things I just don't want anybody to know except me and my wife."
It's a twist on the state of affairs that Carter left when he departed the presidency in 1981.
"When I was in office I was deeply concerned by the intrusion of the security agencies, the intelligence agencies, on
American privacy," he said.
Carter promoted the establishment of FISA courts under the Foreign Intelligence Security Act, requiring U.S.
intelligence agencies to get a federal judge to approve any monitoring of a U.S. citizen.
"When I left office, they couldn't do that with even one American person" without the court's approval, he said.
But the public and Congressional demand for increased intelligence-gathering after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks
that killed nearly 3,000 Americans swept away those safeguards.

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"After 9/11 took place, under President George W. Bush and later under President Obama, the FISA Act has been
drastically modified," Carter said. It is now a "mainly a rubber stamp" for unlimited snooping, approved by member of
Congress, most of them without knowing any details unless they are on one of the Intelligence committees.

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