domestic spying

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Published by Fred Soto• February 26th, 2008 - whitehouser.com

President Bush and his Lawless Administration

US appeals court rejects lawsuit against warrentless domestic spying

Barry Grey
WSWS

7 July 2007

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Friday threw out a suit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) against the Bush administration’s program of warrentless surveillance of telephone and email communications by people residing in the United States.

In a two-to-one decision, a three-judge panel of the appeals court, based in Cincinnati, Ohio, ruled that the plaintiffs did not have standing to challenge the domestic spying operation in the courts because they could not prove that they were directly affected by the program.