Judge Calls NSA Phone Data Collection Unconstitutional
Judge Richard J. Leon of U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, delivering a ruling on November 9, blocked the National Security Agency’s (NSA) program that collects Americans’ domestic phone records in bulk. It was the second ruling that Leon had delivered pertaining to the case of Klayman, et al v. Obama, et al — his first being on December 16, 2013.At the beginning of his opinion, Leon summarized the subject matter of the case. He noted that the plaintiffs, Larry Klayman (the founder of Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch) and Charles and Mary Ann Strange (parents of Michael Strange, a Navy officer killed in Afghanistan), filed the original motion back in 2013 seeking to prevent the NSA “from collecting and querying their telephone metadata pursuant to the NSA’s classified bulk telephony metadata collection program … under which the NSA indiscriminately collects the telephone call records of millions of Americans.”
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