Complaint against NSA spying on mass – News Minute to

Several human rights organizations filed a complaint against the National Security Agency (NSA, US intelligence services) on the constitutionality of the vast surveillance of telephone communications and the internet imposed by the agency.

The American Union of Defense of Liberties (ACLU) put this complaint before a court of Maryland (east), where the head office of the NSA on behalf of the American branch of Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch (HRW) and seven non-governmental organizations, media and legal organizations, including the Wikimedia Foundation, which runs the Internet site Wikipedia.

The complaint is directed against the NSA, its director Michael Rogers, the national Office of Information (ODNI), its director James Clapper, and also to the ministry of the US Justice and its current head, Eric Holder.

The complaint, designated “Wikimedia V. NSA “, argues that the NSA and other intelligence agencies” exceeded the authority that Congress “has entrusted to them, referring to news agency AFP has obtained a copy of the document.

The text stresses that the constitutional rights of complainants were violated by spying on their electronic mail and telephone communications, particularly the First Amendment protects freedom of speech and press, and the Fourth amendment to ban “searches or appropriations without reason.”

42 page document adds that this mass surveillance system prevents lawyers, lawyers and journalists to arrange the their work, to be raped their communications and making hard contact with the sources of information.

An earlier 2013 complaint, “Clapper V. Amnesty”, rejected by the Supreme Court meant that a few months later the former adviser NSA Edward Snowden decided to reveal the mass surveillance system, stressed the ACLU.

” This complaint is essential because mass surveillance threat becomes more difficult our work to eradicate torture, extra-judicial attacks and other human rights abuses, “he said in a separate statement Naureen Shah, head of the American branch of Amnesty International and who heads the area of ​​security and human rights.

“The Wikipedia is based on freedom of expression, research and information. By violating the privacy of our users, NSA threat to intellectual freedom that is central to the ability to create and understand knowledge, “added Lila Tretikov, director of the Wikimedia Foundation.