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Government Court Rules PRISM Program Unconstitutional, Seals Judgement Anyway
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You may have heard about the NSA-based PRISM program that’s been blowing up the web lately. What you probably haven’t heard, is that the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ruled that it was unconstitutional. In 2011.
Why hasn’t this come up before now? Simple, once the ruling made its way to the DOJ, they immediately moved to seal the judgement and keep it a secret from the American people. In a recent (and rare) public filing, the DOJ’s actions are made clear (if you have the patience to read all the way through it, that is).
So, let’s follow the chain of events here:
NSA violates the 4th amendment by seizing electronic records without warrant or probable cause.
“Secret” court rules that NSA’s actions are unconstitutional and violate said 4th amendment.
DOJ gets wind of this, and immediately orders that this ruling should be kept a secret, lest the citizens find out that their government has been violating the bill of rights.
Yeah, that seems to be about the size of it. As if the DOJ hadn’t already lost the confidence of the American people, now we learn that they actively work to hide violations of the bill of rights. Nice.
[link to freepatriot.org]
and
[link to www.eff.org (secure)]
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