US Court rules NSA phone surveillance program illegal
A judge panel consisting of three judges has rules out that collection phone metadata is illegal under the current version of the law. ” The program exceeds the scope of what congress has authorized”
In light of the asserted national security interests at stake, we deem it prudent to pause to allow an opportunity for debate in Congress that may (or may not) profoundly alter the legal landscape
Sen. Marco Rubio defended the NSA program that government listening to your phone is “absolutely and categorically false”
A perception has been created, including by political figures who serve in this chamber, that the United States government is listening to your phone calls or going through your bills as a matter of course,…That is absolutely and categorically false.
While government defendant NSA Program by saying that NSA doesn’t listen to anyone’s and everyone’s phone calls and is subject to oversight Department of Justice. They also said that government operates on orders from FISC, a court that congress created to grant application for surveillance.
We are in the process of evaluating the decision handed down this morning
Without commenting on the ruling today, the President has been clear that he believes we should end the Section 215 bulk telephony metadata program as it currently exists by creating an alternative mechanism to preserve the program’s essential capabilities without the government holding the bulk data. We continue to work closely with members of Congress from both parties to do just that, and we have been encouraged by good progress on bipartisan, bicameral legislation that would implement these important reforms
This decision is a resounding victory for the rule of law,” said ACLU Staff Attorney Alex Abdo, who brought the challenge.”For years, the government secretly spied on millions of innocent Americans based on a shockingly broad interpretation of its authority. The court rightly rejected the government’s theory that it may stockpile information on all of us in case that information proves useful in the future. Mass surveillance does not make us any safer, and it is fundamentally incompatible with the privacy necessary in a free society
Finally Edward Snowden’s Greenwald & Poitras courage paid off? Mass surveillance finally illegal. What you guys think?
