SAN FRANCISCO — Plaintiffs challenging the constitutionality of the National Security Agency’s dragnet surveillance say that the government is still not fulfilling its obligations to preserve evidence, despite the intervention of a federal judge.
U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White of the Northern District of California issued a temporary restraining order earlier this year to shield any potential evidence in civil suits filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. But earlier this week, according to an emergency court filing from EFF, government lawyers told the advocacy group that they do not have to preserve online communications intercepted by the NSA under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
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