eff.org: Senators, Writers, Reporters, Defense Attorneys, and Surveillance Experts Back EFF’s Suit Against the NSA

eff.org: Senators, Writers, Reporters, Defense Attorneys, and Surveillance Experts Back EFF’s Suit Against the NSA:

EFF’s case challenging the government’s mass telephone records collection program, First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles v. NSA, has received some new firepower in the form of five amicus briefs, including one from U.S. senators charged with overseeing the NSA’s activities. The briefs are all in support of our claim that the NSA’s mass surveillance of ordinary Americans’ telephone records is illegal and unconstitutional.