{"id":19834,"date":"2013-12-27T14:56:59","date_gmt":"2013-12-27T19:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=19834"},"modified":"2013-12-27T14:56:59","modified_gmt":"2013-12-27T19:56:59","slug":"nsa-program-upheld-in-ny-after-losing-in-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/19834\/nsa-program-upheld-in-ny-after-losing-in-dc\/","title":{"rendered":"NSA Program Upheld in NY After Losing in DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/nsa-collection-of-phone-data-is-lawful-federal-judge-rules\/2013\/12\/27\/4b99d96a-6f19-11e3-a523-fe73f0ff6b8d_story.html?clsrd \" target=\"_blank\">federal judge in New York ruled<\/a> that the National Security Agency\u2019s warrantless phone record collections are constitutional.<\/p>\n<p>Because the decision <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/19747\/judge-casts-legal-doubt-on-nsa-spying\/\" target=\"_blank\">conflicts with a previous ruling from the District of Columbia<\/a>, today\u2019s ruling makes it much more likely that the United States Supreme Court will eventually weigh in.<\/p>\n<p>As always, the outcome will depend heavily on which frame the Court adopts.<\/p>\n<p>In the D.C. case, Judge Richard Leon emphasized the extent to which the NSA\u2019s program violated fundamental norms of privacy, and pronounced it unconstitutional. \u201cI cannot imagine a more \u2018indiscriminate\u2019 and \u2018arbitrary invasion\u2019 than this systematic and high-tech collection and retention of personal data on every single citizen for purposes of querying it and analyzing it without judicial approval,\u201d wrote Leon.<\/p>\n<p>However in New York, Judge William Pauley took a more sympathetic view of the government\u2019s argument. To him the program \u201csignificantly increases the NSA\u2019s capability to detect the faintest patterns left behind by individuals affiliated with foreign terrorist organizations. Armed with all the metadata, NSA can draw connections it might otherwise never be able to find.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though my inclination is to side with Judge Leon\u2019s disapproval, I\u2019m withholding judgment while Congress deliberates. As Judge Pauley correctly notes, \u201cThe question for this court is whether the government\u2019s bulk telephony metadata program is lawful. This court finds that it is. But the question of whether that program should be conducted is for the other two coordinate branches of government to decide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a debate we can\u2019t afford to take lightly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today a federal judge in New York ruled that the National Security Agency\u2019s warrantless phone record collections are constitutional. Because the decision conflicts with a previous ruling from the District of Columbia, today\u2019s ruling makes it much more likely that the United States Supreme Court will eventually weigh in. As always, the outcome will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[144,2963,800,801,826,92,4196,4430],"class_list":["post-19834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-constitution","tag-law","tag-nsa","tag-privacy","tag-security","tag-supreme-court","tag-surveillance","tag-warrant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19834"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19837,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19834\/revisions\/19837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}