by SABRINA I. PACIFICI on JUNE 10, 2014
Patrick C. Toomey, Staff Attorney, ACLU National Security Project
News release:”
“In an era of too-big-to-fail banks, we should have known it was
coming: An intelligence agency too big to rein in — and brazen enough to
say so. In a remarkable legal filing on
Friday afternoon, the NSA told a federal court that its spying
operations are too massive and technically complex to comply with an
order to preserve evidence. The NSA, in other words, now says that it
cannot comply with the rules that apply to any other party before a
court — the very rules that ensure legal accountability — because it is
too big. The filing came in a long-running lawsuit filed
by the Electronic Frontier Foundation challenging the NSA’s warrantless
collection of Americans’ private data. Recently, the plaintiffs in that
case have fought to ensure that the NSA is preserving relevant evidence
— a standard obligation in any lawsuit — and not destroying the very
data that would show the agency spied on the plaintiffs’ communications.
Yet, as in so many other instances, the NSA appears to believe it is
exempt from the normal rules.”
Continue reading: https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/too-big-comply-nsa-says-its-too-large-complex-comply-court-order
Submitted by: 'Dwight H.'
Continue reading: https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/too-big-comply-nsa-says-its-too-large-complex-comply-court-order
Submitted by: 'Dwight H.'
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