Electronic Frontier Foundation sues Bush, Cheney and NSA over illegal domestic wiretapping
On Thursday September 18th, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a lawsuit against the National Security Agency (NSA) and other government agencies today on behalf of AT&T customers to stop illegal, unconstitutional, and ongoing warrantless domestic surveillance. Also named in the suit are President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Cheney’s chief of staff David Addington, former Attorney General and White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales.
Evidence in the case includes undisputed documents provided by former AT&T telecommunications technician Mark Klein showing AT&T has routed copies of Internet traffic to a secret room in San Francisco controlled by the NSA.
Another lawsuit filed by the EFF in 2006, Hepting v. AT&T, was derailed by a law passed by Congress earlier this year that unconstitutionally granted immunity to AT&T and other companies that took part in the surveillance. The EFF will likely be arguing over “whether the immunity is constitutional and applies in that case”
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