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The Terrorist Surveillance Program was an NSA electronic surveillance program initiated in 2001 that targeted al-Qaeda by intercepting communications involving suspected al-Qaeda affiliates without FISA court warrants.
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Dick Cheney
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Dick Cheney, through his counsel David Addington, was the principal architect of what the administration publicly called the Terrorist Surveillance Program (and internally Stellar Wind). Addington personally typed the authorizing documents on a classified computer and stored them in a vault in his office. The program was reauthorized by presidential order approximately every 45 days.
Since 2001