A federal judge ruled today that the National Security Agency program which
collects information on nearly all telephone calls made to, from or within the
United States is likely to be unconstitutional. As Politico reports, Judge
Richard Leon blasted, "I cannot imagine a more ‘indiscriminate’ and
‘arbitrary invasion’ than this systematic and high-tech collection and retention
of personal data on virtually every single citizen for purposes of querying it
and analyzing it without judicial approval."
This is the first
significant legal setback for the NSA’s surveillance program since Edward
Snowden exposed it.
