U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon said that the National Security Agency’s widespread collection of telephone records of millions of Americans is likely unconstitutional. He granted the request for a preliminary injunction blocking the collection sought by Freedom Watch, but stayed action on his ruling pending a government appeal. This is the first time a federal judge in open court has issued an opinion on the program’s likely unconstitutionality.
Leon wrote, “No court has ever recognized a special need sufficient to justify continuous, daily searches of virtually every American citizen without any particularized suspicion.”
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