The Obama administration will not be allowed to terminate a lawsuit by asserting that a civil argument would risk exposing national secrets. The suit, known as Jewel vs. National Security Agency, was originally filed in 2008 by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and a group of AT&T customers who claimed Bush administration officials had conducted an “illegal and unconstitutional program of dragnet communications surveillance” by operating warrant-less surveillance on US citizens.
Posted on: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 08:55:48 +0000
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