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Federal Judge Finds NSA Surveillance Legal

By Jeralyn, Section Civil Liberties
Posted on Fri Dec 27, 2013 at 07:50:39 PM EST
Tags: NSA Warrantless Surveillance (all tags)
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Yin and Yang. Last week, federal Judge Richard J. Leon in Washington ruled the NSA's collection of mass telephone metadata was “almost Orwellian” and probably unconstitutional."

Today, Judge William H. Pauley III in New York rules the opposite way, finding the NSA program legal under Section 215 of the Patriot Act and the Fourth Amendment.

Today's opinion is here.

The ACLU says on to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

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    To uphold this surveillance... (none / 0) (#1)
    by Dadler on Sat Dec 28, 2013 at 11:00:43 AM EST
    ...as done here, you have to twist yourself into faux patriotic knots. And that he claims it is legal under the Fourth Amendment, well, this "jurist" has declared himself willfully mentally disabled. Par for the course in America tod