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Justice Department lawyers have asked a federal court in Pittsburgh to dismiss a sweeping lawsuit brought earlier this year by a local lawyer against President Barack Obama and other top intelligence officials.
In a new motion to dismiss filed on Monday, the government told the court that the Pittsburgh lawyer, Elliott Schuchardt, lacked standing to make a claim that his rights under the Fourth Amendment have been violated as a result of multiple ongoing surveillance programs.
Specifically, Schuchardt argued in his June 2014 complaint that both metadata and content of his Gmail, Facebook, and Dropbox accounts were compromised under the PRISM program as revealed in the documents leaked by former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday October 24 2014, @07:01PM
1. 4th Amendment, as mentioned in the summary.
2. It's a federal court...the wiretapping was a federal program...are we going to start arguing about where the servers are located? Because that would be blatantly hypocritical as the U.S. government has demonstrated it doesn't give a shit whether the servers are even in another country.
3. Remedy is to tell the NSA to stop...again...maybe they won't ignore us this time? Firing all the head honchos would be nice, too, but I'm not sure whether that's relevant to *this* case per se.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"