ACLU in Court Challenging Unconstitutional Spying Law

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I got this as a newsletter.
Good to see they are on the case:



ACLU in Court Challenging Unconstitutional Spying Law


FAA video


>>Watch this short ACLU video. National Security Project Director Jameel Jaffer discusses the FISA Amendments Act and its implications with two of our plaintiffs -- The Nation’s Chris Hedges and Human Rights Watch’s Dinah PoKempner.





The ACLU was in court last Wednesday for oral arguments in its landmark challenge to the unconstitutional FISA Amendments Act (FAA), which gives the government virtually unchecked power to intercept Americans' international e-mails and telephone calls.

The ACLU filed a lawsuit to stop the government from spying under the FAA less than an hour after the Act was signed into law by President Bush on July 10, 2008. And, recent news reports have indicated that the National Security Agency has exceeded the already overbroad limits granted to it under the FAA.

The case -- Amnesty v. McConnell -- was filed on behalf of a broad coalition of attorneys and human rights, labor, legal and media organizations. These groups rely on confidential communications to do their work, and are therefore greatly compromised by the FAA.

>>Learn more about the ACLU’s challenge to the unconstitutional FISA Amendments Act.

http://www.aclu.org/safefree/nsaspying/faachallenge.html