Obama Opposes Supreme Court Review Of NSA Surveillance

This article was written by Jason Ditz and originally published at AntiWar.com

The Obama Administration is fighting hard against an effort by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) to ask the Supreme Court to weigh in on the issue of NSA surveillance of Americans’ telephone calls, insisting the court lacks jurisdiction and the issue should be left to lower courts.

EPIC has sought (PDF) a Supreme Court answer on whether the FISA courts were exceeding their authority by ordering telephone companies like Verizon to disclose information on every single phone call made by every single customer they have.

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Harpo Marx
Harpo Marx
11 years ago

Full moon tonight. Wonder if reid, pelosi, obummer and the wookie are cavorting in the nude on the national mall tonight? Wild animals howling and barking at the moon.