sailingaway
02-26-2013, 02:45 PM
Somebody breathe some life into Joseph Heller's moldering corpse, quick! We need him to cover Supreme Court news. As noted by Reason 24/7, the justices just tossed out a challenge to surveillance conducted under a 2008 amendment to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) that allows the government free rein to intercept Americans' communications with people located outside the country. The plaintiffs couldn't demonstrate standing to challenge the law, said the court, since they couldn't show that they'd actually been eavesdropped and so suffered harm. That's true, of course, since the United States government won't reveal whose communications it intercepts, meaning that nobody can claim standing in the absence of an informative leak.
more: http://reason.com/blog/2013/02/26/supreme-court-you-can-only-sue-the-feds
more: http://reason.com/blog/2013/02/26/supreme-court-you-can-only-sue-the-feds