Supreme Court rejects plea to look at NSA program

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: Seattle Times

WASHINGTON —
The Supreme Court is refusing to intervene in the controversy surrounding the National Security Agency, rejecting a call from a privacy group to stop NSA from collecting the telephone records of millions of Verizon customers in the United States.

While the justices on Monday declined to get involved in this issue, other lawsuits on the topic are making their way through the lower courts around the country.

But in the case at hand, the Electronic Privacy Information Center bypassed lower courts and said that only the Supreme Court can overrule a decision by the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, whose order allowing NSA to get the records cannot be reviewed by other federal courts.


Read more: http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2022285006_apxsupremecourtnsasurveillance.html

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I've been in the telecommunications business for 35 years. Prior to 911 there was a pretty stringent procedure law enforcement had to go through to collect such data.

[Dopers_Greed]

1. No surprise

The RW Supreme Court doesn't care, so long they aren't the ones being spied on

[Blue_Tires]

3. +1

[billhicks76]

2. Blackmail

Didnt NSA whistleblower analyst say they were listened to Supreme Court Justice's phone calls and texts to gain leverage on them???

[Android3.14]

4. For those of you who cannot understand language, it's pronounced "Chief Justice Roberts"

The "coward" is silent.

[blkmusclmachine]

5. Terrorists wear black robes, too.