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They say it's Constitutional, but they don't want Judges to consider it's Constitutionality.
Executive Branch Privilege, I guess.
- Federal Appeals Court Rules Nsa's Collection Of Phone Records Not Authorized By 'patriot Act'
From The Hill: A federal court has decided that the National Security Agency’s (NSA) bulk, warrantless collection of millions of Americans’ phone records is illegal. The decision from the Second Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday represents...
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Fox: NSA surveillance reach broader than publicly acknowledged The National Security Agency's surveillance network has the capacity to spy on 75 percent of all U.S. Internet traffic, The Wall Street Journal reports. Citing current and former...
- House Democrat After Meeting With Counterterrorism Officials: Nsa Revelations Only “the Tip Of The Iceberg,” There Is “significantly More Than What Is Out In The Media Today”
Sanchez is a complete hack and seems to be lacking in intelligence. I'm guessing most everything "astounds" her. Still, she seems to have picked up that many other lawmakers were also disturbed. From The Hill: The federal surveillance programs revealed...
- Obama Doj Fights Release Of Secret Court Opinion Finding Domestic Surveillance Is Unconstitutional
They knew it was UnConstitutional and they did it anyway. Why, that's downright FASCIST! From Mother Jones: In the midst of revelations that the government has conducted extensive top-secret surveillance operations to collect domestic phone...
- When Will Americans Stand Up And Say "enough!"
"The National Security Agency's seizure and surveillance of virtually all of Verizon's phone customers is an astounding assault on the Constitution," -- Sen. Rand Paul Guardian: NSA collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily...
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White House Tries To Prevent Judge From Ruling On The Constitutionality Of NSA Surveillance
They say it's Constitutional, but they don't want Judges to consider it's Constitutionality.
Executive Branch Privilege, I guess.
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration moved late Friday to prevent a federal judge in California from ruling on the constitutionality of warrantless surveillance programs authorized during the Bush administration, telling a court that recent disclosures about National Security Agency spying were not enough to undermine its claim that litigating the case would jeopardize state secrets.
In a set of filings in the two long-running cases in the Northern District of California, the government acknowledged for the first time that the N.S.A. started systematically collecting data about Americans’ emails and phone calls in 2001, alongside its program of wiretapping certain calls without warrants.
The government had long argued that disclosure of these and other secrets would put the country at risk if they came out in court. But the government said that despite recent leaks by Edward J. Snowden, the former N.S.A. contractor, that made public a fuller scope of the surveillance and data collection programs put in place after the Sept. 11 attacks, sensitive secrets remained at risk in any courtroom discussion of their details — like whether the plaintiffs were targets of intelligence collection or whether particular telecommunications providers like AT&T and Verizon had helped the agency.
“Disclosure of this still-classified information regarding the scope and operational details of N.S.A. intelligence activities implicated by plaintiffs’ allegations could be expected to cause extremely grave damage to the national security of the United States,” wrote the director of national intelligence, James R. Clapper Jr.
So, he said, he was continuing to assert the state secrets privilege, which allows the government to seek to block information from being used in court even if that means the case must be dismissed.
The Justice Department wants the judge to dismiss the matter without ruling on whether the programs violated the First or Fourth Amendment.
- Federal Appeals Court Rules Nsa's Collection Of Phone Records Not Authorized By 'patriot Act'
From The Hill: A federal court has decided that the National Security Agency’s (NSA) bulk, warrantless collection of millions of Americans’ phone records is illegal. The decision from the Second Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday represents...
-
Fox: NSA surveillance reach broader than publicly acknowledged The National Security Agency's surveillance network has the capacity to spy on 75 percent of all U.S. Internet traffic, The Wall Street Journal reports. Citing current and former...
- House Democrat After Meeting With Counterterrorism Officials: Nsa Revelations Only “the Tip Of The Iceberg,” There Is “significantly More Than What Is Out In The Media Today”
Sanchez is a complete hack and seems to be lacking in intelligence. I'm guessing most everything "astounds" her. Still, she seems to have picked up that many other lawmakers were also disturbed. From The Hill: The federal surveillance programs revealed...
- Obama Doj Fights Release Of Secret Court Opinion Finding Domestic Surveillance Is Unconstitutional
They knew it was UnConstitutional and they did it anyway. Why, that's downright FASCIST! From Mother Jones: In the midst of revelations that the government has conducted extensive top-secret surveillance operations to collect domestic phone...
- When Will Americans Stand Up And Say "enough!"
"The National Security Agency's seizure and surveillance of virtually all of Verizon's phone customers is an astounding assault on the Constitution," -- Sen. Rand Paul Guardian: NSA collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily...