The NSA Gets Another Lawsuit
The Christian Science Monitor gives us this nice little piece of information: ASHLAND, ORE. – Of all the lawsuits seeking to halt the National Security Agency’s program to eavesdrop on certain Americans’ electronic communications, a new one filed last week in Oregon may provide the federal courts with the most detailed glimpse yet into the […]
The Christian Science Monitor gives us this nice little piece of information:
ASHLAND, ORE. – Of all the lawsuits seeking to halt the National Security Agency’s program to eavesdrop on certain Americans’ electronic communications, a new one filed last week in Oregon may provide the federal courts with the most detailed glimpse yet into the clandestine counterterrorism effort.
The biggest challenge for such cases – which have also been filed in New York, Michigan, and California – is that plaintiffs don’t have access to records of highly classified government surveillance activities and therefore can’t be sure they were personally subjected to covert phone- tapping or e-mail reading by the US government.
The Oregon suit may manage to leap over that imposing legal hurdle. Lawyers and their clients apparently have seen phone logs and other top-secret records inadvertently provided, and then hastily recovered, by government officials.
Its interesting that these people actually saw the phone logs. Perhaps that information got reclassified under the governments new program. What is even better is the fact that they saw the logs and attorneys are moving ahead with the lawsuit. That has to be some indication that the government actually did domestic wiretapping in this case and their taps have violated our laws.