Audio: Response to the Federal Court Ruling the Bush Spy Program Illegal

August 18, 2006
In the first federal challenge ever argued against the president's NSA spying program, a district court declared the program unconstitutional and called for an immediate halt to this abuse of presidential power.

As Judge Taylor ruled, the program violates the First Amendment, the Fourth Amendment, and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act passed by Congress in the wake of the Watergate scandal.

Q: What do you think of Judge Taylor's ruling in the ACLU v. NSA lawsuit?

Melissa Goodman, staff attorney at the ACLU
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Christopher Hitchens, journalist and client in ACLU v. NSA
(via telephone)
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Anthony Romero, executive director of the ACLU
(via telephone)
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