Supreme Court Terminates Warrantless Electronic Spying Case
October 20th, 2012Via: Wired:
The Supreme Court closed a 6-year-old chapter Tuesday in the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s bid to hold the nation’s telecoms liable for allegedly providing the National Security Agency with backdoors to eavesdrop, without warrants, on Americans’ electronic communications in violation of federal law.
The justices, without comment, declined to review a lower court’s December decision (.pdf) dismissing the EFF’s lawsuit challenging the NSA’s warrantless eavesdropping program. At the center of the dispute was 2008 congressional legislation retroactively immunizing the telcos from being sued for cooperating with the government in a program President George W. Bush adopted shortly after the September 2001 terror attacks.
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The Supreme Court is a bunch of morons (collectivel} that are TOO EFFING LAZY to do much about anything when it seems to run against big corporations who have an interest in the case. Jeez, do you think stockholders might want to know how much money these dorks are charging to them against their balance sheet and stock price? Oh, but no worries. The Supremes says its all A OKAY.
Won’t be surprised when sometime in these planetary transits that just like the banks, and the Federal Reserve, that the Supreme Court will be found to have outlived its usefulness in this new society being born. This ruling does not bring fairness, or any semblance of it in this ruling. And that is why it is wrong.