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U.S. government moves to block further litigation in NSA surveillance cases |
December 23, 2013
The U.S. government again claimed state-secrets privileges in a move to block two lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the National Security Agency’s monitoring of Americans’ phone communications and email, according to court filings late Friday.Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said in a filing in U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, that even though aspects of the government’s surveillance programs have been disclosed, further litigation of the lawsuits would jeopardize secrets of operational details necessary for state security.The government also declassified and made public a variety of material and documents related to the cases and to surveillance programs initiated by former U.S. President George Bush, including earlier assertions of state-secrets privileges.For the first time, the government officially disclosed that “President Bush authorized NSA to collect: (1) the contents of certain international communications, a program that was later referred to as the Terrorist Surveillance Program (TSP), and (2) telephony and Internet non-content information (referred to as metadata) in bulk, subject to various conditions.”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2082740/us-government-moves-to-block-further-litigation-in-nsa-surveillance-cases.html#tk.rss_all
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