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"if I were a lawyer for the NSA" ... well, I think you're mistaken already. I'm not sure the NSA operates the way you think it does (or the way many people hop
by danesparza 12y ago
"if I were a lawyer for the NSA" ... well, I think you're mistaken already. I'm not sure the NSA operates the way you think it does (or the way many people hope it does). Considering that FISA courts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Court http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intellige...) seem to operate outside the jurisdiction of our normal legal system, and considering the NSA is considered part of the US military with no Congressional oversight allowed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nsa#Legal_accountability http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nsa#Legal_accountability) I'm not sure this ruling with have any bearing on the NSA.
- thucydides 12y agoNo, the NSA can be challenged in court. Actually, both my post and the Wikipedia article you cite in your reply refer to federal suits against the NSA. In the recent past, courts would throw out NSA lawsuits because plaintiffs couldn't prove they had been personally surveilled, which left them without standing to sue. (Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_Liberties_Union_v._National_Security_Agency#Sixth_Circuit_Court_of_Appeals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_Liberties_Union...). Since Edward Snowden's revelations showed that some NSA programs target every American, that has changed. And in the future, anti-NSA plaintiffs will be able to use the Supreme Court's legal analysis of the inherent invasiveness of cell phone searches.