Federal judge rules against NSA phone surveillance program

[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] ruled [opinion] Monday that the National Security Agency (NSA) [official website] program of collecting phone call data is likely unconstitutional. Judge Richard Leon ruled in a lawsuit [JURIST report] brought by activist attorney and former government prosecutor Larry Klayman. Klayman, founder of the political advocacy group Freedom Watch [advocacy website], claimed the surveillance practices violate citizens' reasonable expectation of privacy, rights to free speech and...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/12/federal-judge-rules-against-nsa-phone-surveillance-program.php

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