This
Week, Mass Surveillance Wins
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
Published: December 27, 2013
Has the National Security Agency’s mass collection of
Americans’ phone records actually helped to prevent
terrorist attacks?
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No, according to the 300-page report issued this month
by a panel of legal and intelligence experts appointed
by President Obama.
Yet in a ruling issued on Friday, Judge William Pauley
III of the Federal District Court in Manhattan came to
the opposite conclusion. “The effectiveness of bulk
telephony metadata collection cannot be seriously
disputed,” Judge Pauley wrote in a deeply troubling
decision dismissing a lawsuit by the American Civil
Liberties Union that challenged the constitutionality of
the N.S.A.’s bulk data collection program. [...]
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