A federal judge says the National Security Agency's bulk collection of phone records violates the Constitution's ban on unreasonable searches. The judge put his decision on hold pending a nearly certain government appeal.
U.S.
District Court Judge Richard Leon has granted a preliminary injunction
sought by plaintiffs Larry Klayman and Charles Strange, concluding they
were likely to prevail in their constitutional challenge. Leon ruled
Monday that the two men are likely to be able to show that their privacy
interests outweigh the government's interest in collecting the data.
Leon says that means that massive collection program is an unreasonable
search under the Constitution's Fourth Amendment.
The
collection program was disclosed by former National Security Agency
systems analyst Edward Snowden, provoking a heated debate over civil
liberties.
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