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New York Judge Rules NSA Phone Surveillance Lawful

Dec. 27, 2013
"The bulk telephony metadata collection program represents the government's counter-punch: connecting fragmented and fleeting communications to reconstruct and eliminate Al-Qaeda's terror network."

NEW YORK - A U.S. district judge in New York ruled on Friday that controversial telephone surveillance by the National Security Agency was lawful and a vital component of the war on Al-Qaeda.

The ruling from Judge William Pauley of the southern district court in New York came 10 days after a U.S. federal judge in Washington deemed the NSA surveillance probably unconstitutional.

"The question for this court is whether the government's bulk telephony metadata program is lawful. This court finds it is," said the 54-page ruling.

The decision comes after the American Civil Liberties Union challenged the legality of the surveillance program. The judge threw out the petition.

"Technology allowed Al-Qaeda to operate decentralized and plot international terrorist attacks remotely," he wrote.

"The bulk telephony metadata collection program represents the government's counter-punch: connecting fragmented and fleeting communications to reconstruct and eliminate Al-Qaeda's terror network."

Copyright Agence France-Presse, 2013

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