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| U.S. Top Court Refuses to Take on NSA Surveillance |
| 2013-11-19 |
| [An Nahar] The U.S. Supreme Court Monday blocked a challenge to the National Security Agency's vast email and telephone surveillance program. Without giving any explanation, the country's top court rejected the appeal filed by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, or EPIC, asking the justices to halt the spy program. "The ongoing collection of the domestic telephone records of millions of Americans by the NSA, untethered to any particular investigation, is beyond the authority granted by Congress to the FISC," EPIC said, referring to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. The government had asked the Supreme Court to reject the appeal, saying the surveillance program, in place since 2006, had been authorized by the FISC. This is the first appeal to the communications surveillance directly filed to the Supreme Court since former contracter Edward Snowden leaked details about it to the media. Other lawsuits on the NSA program could reach the Supreme Court, after being heard by lower courts in Washington and New York. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 Hummm... maybe I was wrong, maybe having a 50 units of fire stashed isn't crazy after all. This is curious and worrisome. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2013-11-19 16:05 |
| #5 The [previously prohibited by law] monitoring of US Citizens can have at some point, but one purpose. CONTROL ! |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-11-19 07:41 |
| #4 #2 given that he's put on the bench those who interpret the piece of paper formerly known as the Constitution as a living breathing document rather than with strict construction, why should there be any reason to believe that which gives the government ever more power and the citizenry ever less liberty would be the result? /rhet question |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2013-11-19 07:33 |
| #3 Move along now, nothing to worry about, nothing to see here. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-11-19 06:33 |
| #2 Wha...What, No Obama blamers?! |
| Posted by: Unavimp Bumble8207 2013-11-19 06:14 |
| #1 Without giving any explanation Now, that's interesting. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2013-11-19 04:23 |