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Judge Urged to Declare Bush Spy Program Illegal
A lawsuit weighing whether a sitting U.S. president may create a spying program to eavesdrop on Americans’ electronic communications without warrants or congressional authorization took another turn Thursday as a federal judge was asked to answer that question with a “no.” The nearly 5-year-old case, despite its tortured procedural history, is the furthest along in challenging the Bush administration’s warrantless, electronic surveillance program adopted in the wake of the September 11 terror attacks. The case was brought by two former American lawyers for a now-defunct Saudi charity.
Continue reading »EFF, ACLU Vows to Appeal Dismissal of Warrantless Wiretapping Case
It’s been a very long battle between civil rights groups and the NSA, but after all this long and drawn out battle, it appears as though civil rights organizations have experienced a setback in the warrantless wiretapping cases going on in the United States. Still, the battle is far from over as they have vowed to appeal the dismissal in the 9th circuit court of appeals. If one were to go clear back into June of 2008, the month that saw the passage of the Protect America Act , that still doesn’t even get close to the beginning of this whole ordeal (you’d have to go clear back to when Mark Klein blew the whistle on AT&T clear back in 2007 (many argue that the case goes even further back over a report in the New York Times).
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