{"id":101524,"date":"2013-12-27T17:53:19","date_gmt":"2013-12-27T17:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/us-judge-deems-nsa-phone-surveillance-lawful\/"},"modified":"2013-12-27T17:53:19","modified_gmt":"2013-12-27T17:53:19","slug":"us-judge-deems-nsa-phone-surveillance-lawful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/us-judge-deems-nsa-phone-surveillance-lawful\/","title":{"rendered":"US Judge Deems NSA Phone Surveillance Lawful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A case brought by the American Civil Liberties Union against the National Security Agency was dismissed Friday when a U.S. judge <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/12\/27\/us-usa-security-aclu-idUSBRE9BQ0DA20131227\">ruled that the spy agency&#8217;s dragnet collection of telephone data is constitutional<\/a>.<span><span>A National Security Agency (NSA) data gathering facility is seen in Bluffdale, about 25 miles (40 kms) south of Salt Lake City, Utah, December 17, 2013.  Credit: Reuters\/Jim Urquhart<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>While the agency &#8220;vacuums up information about virtually every telephone call to, from, or within the United States,&#8221; said U.S. District Judge William Pauley in Manhattan on Friday, it still remains within the framework of the 4th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and is rather &#8220;ultimately a question of reasonableness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The judge went on to justify the surveillance, saying that the NSA has necessarily \u201cadapted to confront a new enemy: a terror network capable of orchestrating attacks across the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ruling conflicts with lower court rulings and increases the chances of the issue going to the Supreme court, <em>The New York Times <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/12\/28\/us\/nsa-phone-surveillance-is-lawful-federal-judge-rules.html\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Friday&#8217;s ruling conflicts with <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headline\/2013\/12\/16-7\">a decision in a separate lawsuit earlier this month<\/a> by U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon, who said the U.S. government &#8220;almost certainly&#8221; violated the constitution with the phone surveillance program and granted a preliminary injunction against the collecting of phone records.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI cannot imagine a more \u2018indiscriminate&#8217; and \u2018arbitrary invasion&#8217; than this systematic and high-tech collection and retention of personal data on virtually every single citizen for purposes of querying it and analyzing it without judicial approval,&#8221; Leon had stated.<\/p>\n<p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headline\/2013\/12\/27-2\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"US Judge Deems NSA Phone Surveillance Lawful\">Common Dreams<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A case brought by the American Civil Liberties Union against the National Security Agency was dismissed Friday when a U.S. judge ruled that the spy agency&#8217;s dragnet collection of telephone data is constitutional.A National Security Agency (NSA) data gathering facility is seen in Bluffdale, about 25 miles (40 kms) south of Salt Lake City, Utah, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-101524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}