The last time the American Civil Liberties Union challenged the power of the National Security Agency in court, the Supreme Court wound up dismissing the case, holding that the groups represented by the ACLU did not have “standing” to challenge the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping program, because they could not prove their communications were monitored.On Tuesday, the ACLU filed a new lawsuit, on its own behalf, in response to the leak of a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court order issued in April requiring a Verizon subsidiary, Verizon Business Network Services, to turn over the metadata about calls made by all its subscribers over a three-month period. The advocacy group is confident this case won’t stumble where the last one did. The reason: the ACLU itself is a Verizon Business Network Services subscriber.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=88327