In explaining his refusal to suppress evidence against a lawful permanent resident that was gathered in a warrantless wiretap program used against terrorists, Eastern District Judge John Gleeson found that in the case before him, the government “conducted its national security investigation within the confines of the Fourth Amendment.”
Gleeson acknowledged that there are fewer things “more unsettling than the idea that a government is spying on its own citizens,” adding that there is a “long history” of demanding American government accountability for such abuses.
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