US Spy Court Dismisses Constitution in Approving NSA Bulk Data Collection

Wednesday, July 1, 2015
By Paul Martin

SputnikNews.com
01.07.2015

On Monday, the FISC ruled that the NSA had legal authority to resume bulk collection of all US citizens’ phone records for the next five months, local media reported.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — The US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) rebuffed objections over the constitutionality of the National Security Agency’s (NSA) spying powers on Monday by allowing the agency to resume the bulk collection of phone records, digital rights group attorney Andrew Crocker told Sputnik.

“[FISC] dismissed the constitutional concerns noted in the past,” Crocker, a Staff Attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), told Sputnik. “We [EFF] still very much think that the bulk collection of phone records, even if it’s going on for another six months, is unconstitutional and has been unconstitutional the whole time.”

The court’s ruling overrode a federal Second Circuit of Appeals decision in May 2015, which argued that the NSA was never authorized to conduct such surveillance.

“The FISC opinion goes out of its way to disagree with that Second Circuit ruling in a way that I thought was not very persuasive,” Crocker added.

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