A federal judge has affirmed the legality of the U.S. government's bulk
collection of phone and email data from foreign nationals living outside
the country — including their contact with U.S. citizens — in denying a
man's motion to dismiss his terrorism conviction.
It was the first legal challenge to the government's bulk
data-collection program of non-U.S. citizens living overseas after
revelations about massive, warrantless surveillance were made public by
former National Security Agency employee Edward Snowden.
The program also sweeps up information about U.S. citizens who have
contact with overseas suspects. This type of surveillance played a key
role in this case.
Lawyers for Mohamed Mohamud, a U.S. citizen who lived in Oregon, tried
to show the program violated his constitutional rights and was more
broadly unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Garr King on Tuesday
denied that effort.
The ruling also upheld Mohamud's conviction on terrorism charges. In his
decision, King rejected the argument from Mohamud's attorneys that
prosecutors failed to notify Mohamud of information derived under the
U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act until he was already
convicted.
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