NSA Surveillance Challenge Lands in Federal Court

You can tell when the government's lawyers are lying: their lips are moving.

First there was the furor caused by the Edward Snowden classified secrets disclosures, then the lawsuits, and now the court hearings.

For the second time in a week, government lawyers will appear in federal court on Friday to defend the NSA program that gathers up bulk telephone records-called “telephony metadata”– as a measure to fight terrorism.

The government conducts what it calls “targeted electronic searches” on the data based on telephone numbers or other identifiers associated with terrorist organizations. 

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