WASHINGTON — The American Civil Liberties Union is asking federal courts to declare the recently revealed phone records-tracking operation of the National Security Agency to be unconstitutional — and that records already collected be “purge[d] from their possession.”What’s unusual about the lawsuit — filed Tuesday against James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence, and others — is that the ACLU and its New York chapter have filed it on their own behalf, as current and former Verizon telephone customers. Moreover, as they do legal work, they note in their complaint that even “the mere fact that Plaintiffs have communicated with … individuals is sensitive or privileged.”
Although the program was reveled through publication by The Guardian of an order to Verizon from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, the ACLU did not attempt to address that order in that court, whose decisions are not public. It instead filed a separate lawsuit in open court, attempting to have the program declared both illegal under current law and unconstitutional under both the First and Fourth amendments.
i'm usually with the ACLU but this is ridiculous you either don't want others knowing you are screwing around on your spouse or you want to be able to plan pass next month, choose freedom of privacy or freedom with paying the Piper in this case your privacy that if you face it only means something to you not the greater good of the country. recognize
there is no such thing as a free ride, there is always something or someone you have to pay, we need to drop this false complacency and realize that.
