Posted on 05/24/2017 7:57:02 AM PDT by mac_truck
A federal appeals court has revived a lawsuit challenging the National Security Agency's collection of emails, texts and other online communications that privacy experts have long argued violates constitutional protections of Americans' privacy.
A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond on Tuesday reversed a lower court decision and declared that Wikimedia Foundation has the legal standing to pursue the case against the NSA, America's primary foreign spy surveillance agency.
Wikimedia alleges in its suit, backed by the American Civil Liberties Union, that the NSA's upstream collection practices violate the 4th Amendment because they gather without a warrant emails, texts and other internet communications between two people who mention an authorized surveillance target by name but aren't themselves covered by a court order to be surveilled.
(Excerpt) Read more at circa.com ...
The fourth amendment was written by dead white male slaveholders... :-(
Good.
Discovery in this one ought to be the most fun a person can have with their pants on.
U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon ruled in a lawsuit brought by conservative activist Larry Klayman that the legal challenge to the massive surveillance program — disclosed in full earlier this year by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden — would likely succeed.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/12/16/judge-nsa-surveillance-fourth-amendment/4041995/
This is long overdue. The right to privacy is part of our Natural Rights which cannot be revoked by blanket fiat. If the government wants to get into our knickers, they must obtain an individual search warrant from a FISA court based on probable cause.
Shortly before Obama left office, his administration admitted to the FISA court that it knowingly violated the privacy of American citizens in (by its own estimate) roughly 5% of the warrants granted.
Obama`s illegal activities being reported 24/7 by NBC/CNN/ABC/CBS/MSNBC/WaPo/NYTimes…
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NAWW, Just messin` wit `ya. It`s not news or illegal if they ignore it and not speak of it.
When I say “Osama bin Laden” here, the NSA starts monitoring my communications.
If that isn’t a Fourth Amendment violation, I don’t know what is.
The wise heads will explain that we can't punish anyone because they were working on our behalf. So if someone is fined it will be us.
If we jail the miscreants, it will have a chilling affect on public servants. They will not do anything for fear of doing something wrong. Again we lose. So they tell us.
And so the deep state plays fast and loose with the rules, knowing that they are untouchable. Political hackery is classified and even if exposed can be excused with the thinnest of excuses.
Yeah, lets allow the muslims to plot in secret - we don’t need no stinking NSA ... we just love turning on the telle to the latest surprise terrorist act ... just think of all the money the media garners from ads while covering the story incessantly .. look at all those dead kids! Why one would imagine this is some sort of genocide - damn Amish anyway.
Agreed, put an end to this BS
May I request to be there when discovery takes place?
I can still pass a BI for TS clearance.
Would be fun.
5.56mm
Request denied...get back in the ranks plebe!
Look at all those a/c units...not very climate-change friendly...did Obama get the High Priest Gore’s blessing first?
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