Attorneys for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), have filed a lawsuit against the Obama Administration to stop the NSA surveillance program. Plaintiffs joining the suit are:
First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles, Bill of Rights Defense Committee, CalGuns Foundation, California Association of Federal Firearms Licensees, Council on American Islamic Relations – California, Ohio, and Foundation, Franklin Armory, Free Press, Free Software Foundation, Greenpeace, Inc. , Human Rights Watch, Media Alliance, National Organization for the Rationalization of Marijuana Laws, California Open Technology Institute, People for the American Way, Public Knowledge, Students for a Sensible Drug Policy, TechFreedom, Unitarian Universalist Service Committee.
Named defendants included Attorney General Eric Holder, NSA Director Keith Alexander and National Intelligence Director James Clapper. Whistleblower, Edward Snowden drew national attention when he leaked information about the U.S. and Britain’s top-secret surveillance program to the press. He is currently spending time in a Moscow airport waiting to hear where he will be granted asylum.
The lawsuit focuses on the broad telephone metadata collection program reported in the Washington Post and UK Guardian in June of 2013. The lawsuit cites the freedom of association clause in the 1st Amendment to the Constitution and NAACP vs Alabama (1958), a case which denied government unfettered access to the membership lists of the civil rights organization.
EFF has been defending free speech, privacy, innovation, and consumer rights since 1990 — long before there ever was Facebook or Twitter. From the beginning, EFF has championed the public interest in every critical battle affecting digital rights.
Inge, I like it when you worry more about the NSA and Mansanto Corp. than you do about the distractions of a singular murder mystery in Florida.
Orange County Needs you. Occupy Loves you!
I know that you are going to claim that Trayvon Vs. Zimmerman is very very important. But it is mostly distraction. Destructive distraction.
double eye…I was going to write about Zimmerman trial, but Greg wrote a very good article and I added my 2 cents to that…You are free to write about whatever you want as well. Maybe you think running out of food world wide is a distraction, but that is your opinion. Poisoning our food is not a distraction…I take it VERY personally…it nearly killed me.
Inge, you have Trayvon in one ear and Zim in the other ear!
I said that those two are a distraction.
Running out of food world wide and the poisoning of food by corporate interests is not a distraction it is a priority concern that we all need to pay more attention to.
We are fortunate to have concerned citizens like yourself working on these problems.
Do you think I am being sarcastic or something? I am not.
Let her write what she wants. She’ll cover plenty of food stories as well, but in news as in life there is benefit to diversity in one’s diet.
Yes, Double Eye I completely misunderstood you and I apologize. One of the bad things about communicating in print is it can lead to misunderstandings. When it comes to writing about health and food issues I am a tiny drop in a huge ocean. I am grateful to have people like Vern and Greg to give me a place to be heard.