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The Raw Story | ACLU challenges FISA update with first legal brief

The Raw Story | ACLU challenges FISA update with first legal brief: "The ACLU filed the first legal challenge to the constitutionality of the FISA Amendments Act Friday, criticizing the law as a infringement of U.S. residents' right to privacy.

The latest step in the ACLU's prolonged lawsuit against the FISA bill, the brief accuses the federal government of broadening its surveillance far past what is needed to defend the country from terrorists, according to a press release from the organization.

'The FISA Amendments Act allows the mass acquisition of Americans' international e-mails and telephone calls,' said Jameel Jaffer, Director of the ACLU National Security Project. 'The administration has argued that the law is necessary to address the threat of terrorism, but the truth is that the law sweeps much more broadly and implicates all kinds of communications that have nothing to do with terrorism or criminal activity of any kind. The Fourth Amendment was meant to prohibit exactly the kinds of dragnet surveillance that the new law permits.'"

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