A conservative legal activist urged a federal appeals court Tuesday to strike down the National Security Agency’s
program that collects Americans’ phone records in bulk, calling it
“perhaps the biggest violation of freedom and constitutional rights in
history” and warning the judges that if they did not step in, Americans
would take to the streets in revolt.
But
a Justice Department lawyer insisted that the once-secret program was
designed only to identify “known and unknown contacts of individuals
associated with international terrorism,” and said that the activist had
no proof that his records had been collected, let alone scrutinized.
“There
is no protected constitutional interest that has been invaded by the
mere collection of business records,” the Justice Department lawyer,
Thomas Byron, added.
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