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Conservative activist files lawsuit over NSA surveillance |
June 07, 2013
A conservative activist has filed a lawsuit against U.S. President Barack Obama, the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. National Security Agency after news reports that the NSA has been collecting the phone records of a large number of Verizon Communications customers.
A British newspaper ,the Guardian, reported Wednesday that the NSA, with
authorization from the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, has been collecting the phone records of a large number of
Verizon customers.
On Thursday, the Guardian and the Washington Post reported that the NSA
and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation also have access to servers
at Google, Facebook, Microsoft and other major providers of Internet
services, collecting audio, video, email and other content for
surveillance. Some of the companies denied that the NSA and FBI have
access to their servers.
Larry Klayman, the founder of watchdog websites Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch and a former DOJ prosecutor, filed the lawsuit Friday in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, he said in a statement on the Freedom Watch site.
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