Judge to NSA: Cut It Out

Jacob Sullum | August 17, 2006

Responding to an ACLU lawsuit, a federal judge in Detroit has concluded that the NSA's warrantless surveillance of international e-mail and telephone calls involving people in the U.S. is illegal and unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor ordered an immediate stop to the program, which she said violates the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the Fourth Amendment, and (because of its chilling effect on the speech of people worried about the surveillance) the First Amendment. Her opinion is here.