Judge Tosses NSA Spy Cases

January 22nd, 2010 admin

Topics: bush, cover-ups, fbi, nsa, obama, surveillance, Wired

A federal judge is dismissing lawsuits accusing the government of teaming with the nation’s telcos to funnel Americans’ electronic communications to the National Security Agency without warrants. U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker’s decision was a major blow to the two suits testing warrantless eavesdropping and executive branch powers implemented following the 2001 terror attacks. The San Francisco judge said the courts are not available to the public to …

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