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(FILES) General Keith Alexander, director of the National Security Agency (NSA), prepares to testify before the Senate Appropriations Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, in this June 12, 2013 file photo. Federal judge William Pauley in New York ruled on December 17, 2013, that the NSA's mass surveillance of telephone calls is lawful, fanning a legal conflict likely to be decided ultimately by the Supreme Court. Pauley in threw out a petition from the American Civil Liberties Union and said the program was vital in preventing an Al-Qaeda terror attack on American soil. Ten days earlier, however, another federal judge in Washington had deemed that NSA surveillance is probably unconstitutional, laying the groundwork for a protracted series of legal challenges. "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 published in New York on Friday. The scale by which NSA indiscriminately gathers data on millions of private calls was exposed by intelligence whistleblower Edward Snowden, sparking an international and domestic outcry. AFP PHOTO / Saul LOEB/FILES
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Washington, District of Columbia, UNITED STATES |
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AFP / Mediafax Foto |
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SAUL LOEB |
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27 Decembrie 2013 |
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2011 x 3000 (1.11 MB) |
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