[Cryptography] Appeals Court Rules NSA Phone Program Not Authorized by Patriot Act - WSJ

[Tom Mitchell]

On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 7:53 AM, John Young <jya at pipeline.com> wrote:

> Correction:
>
> The decision and three opinions
>
> Decision:
> http://cryptome.org/2015/05/aclu-v-clapper-170.pdf


"...the program exceeds the scope of what Congress has authorized, we
vacate the decision below dismissing the complaint without reaching
appellants’ constitutional arguments."

So a new law could authorize this because the constitutional issue has not
been reached.
Interesting....  caught simply spending money in unauthorized ways...



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