Edward Snowden [bot]The ruling of the court demolishes the longest-held defenses of mass surveillance. After taking into account the best of the government's evidence, the court found the program unlawful and ineffective, establishing the government's public claims of "necessity" were deceitful. https://t.co/ycmsdqZ3id
Patrick Toomey on Twitter
“Breaking: In a long-awaited decision, the 9th Circuit has ruled that the NSA's bulk collection of Americans' call records was illegal. The court held that the mass surveillance program violated Section 215—and very likely violated the 4th Amendment too. https://t.co/fMNUYdkttm”