EFF files another lawsuit over US internal spying
Found on The Inquirer on Thursday, 18 September 2008
US president George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney head up the list of federal officials named in a lawsuit filed Thursday by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) over the government's continuing warrantless wiretapping of citizens' phone and Internet traffic.
EFF senior staff lawyer Kevin Bankston said, "In addition to suing AT&T, we've now opened a second front in the battle to stop the NSA's illegal surveillance of millions of ordinary Americans and hold personally responsible those who authorized or participated in the spying program."
Hopefully this will have permanent consequences because it might as well happen that everybody agrees not to do it again, but then does it in an even more secret way. That's what the spy business is all about: get information without anybody noticing.