Geee Posted October 25, 2015 Share Posted October 25, 2015 Washington Times: A federal district court on Friday dismissed a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union against the National Security Agency over its mass surveillance program. Ashley Gorski, a staff attorney with the ACLU national security project told The Guardian the mass spying program was innately harmful, arguing it violates “our clients’ constitutional rights to privacy, freedom of speech, and freedom of association, and it poses a grave threat to a free internet and a free society.” But Judge TS Ellis III said the suit relied on “the subjective fear of surveillance” because the NSA did not admit to having collected any of the information it was alleged to have collected by the ACLU, the Guardian reported. Mr. Ellis admitted that requiring enough evidence to convict the NSA of illegal spying was difficult, regardless of whether or not the spying had occurred. ACLU National Security Project staff attorney Patrick Toomey blasted the decision, saying the court had “wrongly insulated the NSA’s spying from meaningful judicial scrutiny.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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