Surveillance Has Grown Under Obama

DOJ electronic surveillance has jumped sixty-four percent since 2009

The Justice Department's use of electronic surveillance has jumped by a whopping 64 percent since 2009.

Through a Freedom of Information Act request, the American Civil Liberties Union found that court orders for both pen registers and trap-and-trace devices on phones increased from 23,535 in 2009 to a shocking 37,616 in 2011, The Associated Press reported Thursday.