NSA, on US soil, systematically searches Americans’ cross-border communications without warrants

In the New York Times today, Charlie Savage has another new, important story on the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs. He reports:

via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2013/08/08/nsa-on-us-soil-systematicall.html

When Kendrick Brinson first heard of Sun City, a retirement community in Arizona that boasts a squad of senior-citizen cheerleaders, she knew she had to visit. Sun City, the first “planned active retirement community,” had its 50th anniversary on Jan. 1, 2010; Brinson made her first trip in December 2009. Six visits and 3½ years later, Brinson released Sun City: Life After Life, a limited-edition book designed by Deb Pang Davis that she envisions as a sort of “retro brochure” or visual guidebook to the community.