WHO U KIDDIN Posted July 5, 2013 #1 Share Posted July 5, 2013 BREAKING: Privacy Advocates To File Supreme Court Petition Challenging NSA Surveillance Program By Andrea Peterson on Jul 4, 2013 at 1:09 pm Amie Stepanovich, Director of the Domestic Surveillance Project at Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), announced that her organization is submitting a petition asking the Supreme Court to vacate Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Court (FISC) ruling that authorized the National Security Agency’s (NSA) to siphon up metadata on all domestic phone calls on Monday. The announcement was made Thursday at a Restore the Fourth rally in Washington, DC — one of many public events around the country organized to protest the various surveillance programs revealed in recent NSA leaks. In an exclusive comment to ThinkProgress after the annoucement, Stepanovich said “EPIC truly believes that this Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court exceeded it’s authority, is not acting in accordance with the law and needs to be overturned — and cannot be allowed to continue conducting this surveillance. ” EPIC previously submitted a series of petitions to the NSA challenging its collection of domestic communications information on Fourth Amendment grounds, and because they believe the NSA violated the Administrative Procedure Act by implementing what constitutes a legislative rule that “substantively affects the public to a degree sufficient to implicate the policy interests animating notice-and-comment rulemaking” without an opportunity for public comment. Other organizations have also initiated legal challenges to the NSA surveillance program. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit in June arguing that NSA phone data program violates the First Amendment rights of free speech and association, the right of privacy protected by the Fourth Amendment, and that the dragnet program exceeds the authority provided to the Agency by the Patriot Act. http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/07/04/2258221/epic-nsa-scotus/ Can political movements like Restore the Fourth empower Americans to stop the government from completely overturning their rights as guaranteed under the Constitution? Or in the end will a new American vision of 'democracy' as presented by such bills as the Patriot Act or NDAA emerge victorious? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kowalski Posted July 5, 2013 #2 Share Posted July 5, 2013 (edited) Speaking of the "Restore the Fourth Rally": 40 Best Signs of Restore the Fourth Rallies http://www.buzzfeed....allies?s=mobile Some of these are quite funny.... I like the one, "Read the Constitution, not my emails" Edited July 5, 2013 by Kowalski 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashotep Posted July 5, 2013 #3 Share Posted July 5, 2013 I hope they succeed. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clarakore Posted July 5, 2013 #4 Share Posted July 5, 2013 Restore the Fourth = Occupy Wall Street 2.0 Oh, the outrage!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WHO U KIDDIN Posted July 5, 2013 Author #5 Share Posted July 5, 2013 (edited) Speaking of the "Restore the Fourth Rally": 40 Best Signs of Restore the Fourth Rallies http://www.buzzfeed....allies?s=mobile Some of these are quite funny.... I like the one, "Read the Constitution, not my emails" My favorite is "The answer to 1984 is 1776" now that's priceless! Edited July 5, 2013 by WHO U KIDDIN 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kowalski Posted July 5, 2013 #6 Share Posted July 5, 2013 My favorite is "The answer to 1984 is 1776" now that's priceless! I liked that one too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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