“The Obama administration for the first time responded to a Spygate lawsuit, telling a federal judge the wholesale vacuuming up of all phone-call metadata in the United States is in the ‘public interest,’ does not breach the constitutional rights of Americans and cannot be challenged in a court of law. The administration’s filing sets the stage for what is to be a lengthy legal odyssey — one likely to outlive the Obama presidency — that will define the privacy rights of Americans for years to come.”
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/07/spygate-snooping-standing/
Related posts:
Police Brutally Attack And Release Dog On Unarmed Teenager
The Little Known Law That Lets Hospitals Shut Down Competition
90+ Arrests of DC Cops Past 4 Years
Mattis, Tillerson Want Blank Check to Wage Illegal War
Bureaucrat Who Concocted Annoying Password Rules Now Regrets It
“What Is That Box?” — When The NSA Shows Up At Your Internet Company
The Similarity Between American & Iranian Media
Canada Wants to Join the Government Stupidity Contest
Government Attempts to Dismiss Lawsuit Over Wrongful Arrest, Psych Ward Detention of Facebook Marine
NDAA Lawsuit Brief Filed By Children Of Japanese-Americans Interned During World War II
How the Government Tracks You: NSA Surveillance
Nevada bill would legalize gambling on federal elections
Stock Market's New Threat Is Record Margin Debt
LA Unions Demand Exemption from $15 Minimum Wage They Created
Why No Construction Workers Memorial Day?