Courts, Congress Shun Addressing Legality of Warrantless Eavesdropping

January 29th, 2010 admin

The National Security Agency allegedly siphoned Americans' communications without warrants from behind this door at an AT&T office in San Francisco. Heads spun four years ago this weekend, when AT&T was accused of funneling every one of its customers’ electronic communications to the National Security Agency — without warrants. A Jan. 31, 2006, lawsuit alleged major violations of the Fourth Amendment right to be free from warrantless searches and seizures. Such a sweeping breach seemed far-fetched. Yet months after the lawsuit was lodged, the Electronic Frontier Foundation produced internal AT&T documents allegedly outlining secret rooms in AT&T offices connected to the NSA, which was…


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