Court rules for telecoms’ role in domestic eavesdropping

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In mixed decisions with important implications for government spying on US citizens, the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco has ruled that telecommunications companies have the constitutional right to legal immunity for helping the government eavesdrop on e-mail and telephone communications.

But in a separate opinion, the three-judge panel also ruled Thursday that telecom customers can sue the federal government for eavesdropping on private telephone and e-mail communications.

Ruling in Jewel v. National Security Agency (a case brought by Carolyn Jewel of Petaluma, Calif.), the Ninth Circuit judges wrote: “In light of detailed allegations and claims of harm linking Jewel to the intercepted telephone, Internet and electronic communications, we conclude that Jewel’s claims are not abstract, generalized grievances and instead meet the constitutional standing requirement of concrete injury.”

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  • Stephen Russell

    See NDAA" Natl Defense Auth Act allowing the above & FEMA camps estd for American Gulags.
    This is part of NDAA.

  • Gregg Weber

    Character trumps power; but only for a while. Remember that absolute power corrupts absolutely. For everyone, or at least a very large number of people, eventually character will secumb to greed and corruption.
    Both those that want President Obama, or his liberal successor, to have this power and those that fear him having it the question is this.
    What would happen to you if a tyranical President had this power to use against you? Obama, Nixon, or anyone else. Just what powers do you want to give the President?

    • ron yurchak

      10th amendment. No power over individual states.

  • evermyrtle

    What a big deal! They can snoop all they please on your most private conservations, and what is so really wonderful! WE CAN SUE!!!!!!!!!!. The don't say who is to pay the lawyers, courts cost, etc. etc. etc. We have been snookered again. The "0" is hard at work making America better, but better for who, what, when?

  • evermyrtle

    The power I would like to give him is a life time jail sentence, in the tank.

    • ron yurchak

      That's to good for him and his cronies. They all should be tried for treason and face the firing squad.

  • Dean

    What did you expect from the Ninth U.S. Curcuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco? Totally Liberal.

    • ron yurchak

      Well, when California falls into the Pacific we wo'nt have to worry about the 9th.

  • sandra

    If he gets elected again we are in deep do do.

    • ron yurchak

      We're already there, up to our eyes.

  • JVB

    Liberals live by the code that gives them right to do what ever they choose just so long as they're ready to say, "sorry…my bad" when caught. Always have and always will…it works for them because our justice system is run by liberals.

    • ron yurchak

      Our justice system is run by communists and socialists.

      • ron yurchak

        Here we go again. Comment must be approved by sensors. I told the truth.

  • ricbee

    What did you expect from the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco-they should be disbarred they often get overturned they are so bizarre.

  • ccfonten

    This does not bode well for WE THE PEOPLE.

  • Noni Mausse

    The National Security Agency has a history of falsifying accusations and flimsy, contrived evidence to get courts to sign off on their harassment campaigns against critics, reporters, and their own employees who dare report managers for anything from demanding sex for promotions to have close and continuous ties with foreigners (i.e. selling secrets to foreign agents).
    And if the court won’t sign off? They just illegally bug the person anyway. They know the person is innocent, it is done for harassment purposes with some hope of finding blackmailable info to discredit the person with to cover up real crimes. The NSA directorates directly involved: EEO, Security group (Q), Security Psych Services, “Special Projects”, Continued Access, the Office of the Inspector General, and the General Council’s Office. All work in tandem to report people who file complaints under the “No Fear Act” (no reprisal for reporting fraud, waste, and abuse – ha, ha, ha), and target, attack, and destroy their careers, reputations, and lives. You also get targeted if you “irk” the wrong person. One woman’s career was destroyed because she was dating a man whose mother did not like her, and the mother had NSA connections. The woman lost her career and cannot work due to the emotional trauma from the vicious, 24/7 Security harassment campaign against her that lasted a couple years. Read Wayne Madsen, he has reported on the psycho’s running NSA and their sexual and criminal perversions flourishing behind misappropriated “Top Secret” status.

  • TOO INFORMED

    To see the future, look to the past. !776 all over again? Naw…FEMA will step in before one shot is fired. Like that old war song during Viet Nam. And it's one-two-three, what are we fighting for? Oh I don't give a damm, we're all going to Viet Nam. And its five-six-seven, open those pearly gates, whew, we're all gonna die.

  • SEAN MURRY

    If it happen to me i would sue the SOBs.

    • http://thechristiansolution.com thechristiansolution

      The decision is that you cannot sue your phone or internet provider – they have immunity from a lawsuit. And with immunity from their customers hitting them for billions in damages, then they will feel totally safe handing over all our personal information when the Feds put any amount of pressure on them. This is a HUGE loss for American liberty!

  • Richard Gibbard

    Didn't this whole mess get started with trying to find Al-Qaida sympathizers in the US?

  • http://thechristiansolution.com thechristiansolution

    This decision is that you cannot sue your phone or internet provider – they have immunity from a lawsuit. And with immunity from their customers hitting them for billions in damages, then they will feel totally safe handing over all your personal information when the Feds put any amount of pressure on them. This is a HUGE loss for American liberty! We need all the militant pro-abortion advocates we can muster marching for a right to privacy?

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