Posted on 12/16/2013 12:44:15 PM PST by lbryce
A federal judge ruled Monday that the National Security Agency's bulk collection of phone records likely violates the Constitution, in a major setback for the controversial spy agency.
U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon granted a preliminary injunction sought by plaintiffs Larry Klayman and Charles Strange. However, he also stayed his decision "pending appeal," giving the U.S. government time to fight the decision over the next several months.
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So what? John Roberts will “reinterpret” the Constitution to suit his master, President You Didn’t Build That.
Next headline-NSA deals a blow to judge!
I don’t understand why the Obama White Hut just didn’t dig up the Judge’s NSA files and let him know about it the way it was done with JUdge Roberts.
Shouldn’t it be describe as Obama’s domestic spy program?
Government operating illegally and criminally?
What a shock!!
With all the metadata people allow to be mined by commercial entities, I don’t see the “expectation of privacy” argument having any validity.
Just put a “everything you do with this phone is public knowledge” label on all the phones.
http://www.volokh.com/2013/12/16/judge-leon-enjoins-nsa-telephony-metadata-program-larry-klayman-lawsuit/
-Orin Kerr’s Volokh article.
It won’t change a thing. Well maybe it will, the NSA will start implanting cyanide capsules in all its employees which can be triggered by remote control.
I’d call it ObamaSpook but that would be racist.
judge invited to Hawaii by Obama dies in plane crash...
Duh. They might as well go into everyone’s home and take thousands of photographs and say, “don’t worry, it’s only metadata (data about your house) and we’ll only use it if we have a relevant case that needs the info.”
Yeah, like I’m gonna let that happen in my home. This isn’t Singapore.
They’ll keep doing it. What is a judge to super spooks?
The way they define the word “metadata”, ALL data is “metadata”. The whole thing is insulting.
The NSA and much of “our”,Intel community is liberal and has almost NOTHING to do with America. They are their OWN country that sits side-by-side with America and is HOSTILE to her.
This is like me hearing that, say, Mexico had some judgement come down against it.
They have nothing to do with us rather than requiring our funding.
They regard us as their enemy and I find it insulting they swear a Constitutional Oath —that should be discarded.
Not much more than a speed bump.
These sob’s have been violating the law for years. Whomever approved this sort of warrant-less spying should be jailed...including presidents and or ex-presidents.
NOONE is above the law. They knew full well what they were doing and those in gubbamint have been obstructing justice, committing perjury, conspiracy, wire fraud, official oppression, theft of private property....all of which are felonies.
So...why are there not people being charged? The FBI, NSA, IRS, EPA officials have been bullying innocent citizens like a gang of thugs.
So, why not reverse the table and charge these people with RICO?
What does the judge mean by “likely” ?
That’s scary.........
Snowden vindicated - just sayin ...
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