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Related: About this forumCourt Rules NSA Bulk Spying Illegal: New Vindication for Snowden, and Uncertainty for PATRIOT Act
Published on May 8, 2015
http://democracynow.org - A federal appeals court has ruled the National Security Agencys bulk collection of millions of Americans phone records is illegal. The program was exposed by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden; the ACLU filed its lawsuit based largely on Snowdens revelations. In a unanimous decision Thursday, a three judge panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York called the bulk phone records collection "unprecedented and unwarranted." The ruling comes as Congress faces a June 1st deadline to renew the part of the Patriot Act that authorizes the NSAs bulk data surveillance. Another measure, the USA Freedom Act, would lead to limited reforms of some of the NSAs programs. We are joined by Jameel Jaffer, Deputy Legal Director of the ACLU, which filed the case challenging the NSAs bulk collection of Americans phone records.
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Court Rules NSA Bulk Spying Illegal: New Vindication for Snowden, and Uncertainty for PATRIOT Act (Original Post)
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