Judge Halts Warrantless Wiretapping Program

Submitted by jbreland on Thu, 08/17/2006 - 23:11

The EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) reported earlier today about the victory by the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) in their lawsuit to halt the illegal and unconstitional domestic spying program being performed by the NSA at the request of the Bush administration. This is an important early victory, and strengthens the EFF's own case against AT&T for "violating the law and the privacy of its customers by collaborating with the National Security Agency (NSA) in its massive and illegal program to wiretap and data-mine Americans' communications."

More details can be found in the EFF summary: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004880.php
as well as the AP report: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060817/ap_on_go_pr_wh/warrantless_surveillance