The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit on Monday, seeking to force the U.S. government to disclose details of its foreign electronic surveillance program and what protections it provides to Americans whose communications are swept up.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in New York, came three days after the ACLU lost a bid to block a separate program that collects the phone calls of millions of Americans.
The latest lawsuit seeks information related to the use of Executive Order 12333, which was signed in 1981 and governs surveillance of foreign targets.
Under the order, the National Security Administration is collecting “vast quantities” of data globally under the order’s authority, “inevitably” including communications of U.S. citizens, the lawsuit said.
The lawsuit cites “recent revelations,” an apparent reference to reports about U.S. spying activities in the wake of leaks by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
“This FOIA request seeks, in part, to determine what protections are afforded to those U.S. persons and whether those protections are consistent with the Constitution,” it said.
A Justice Department spokesman said the government would respond to the lawsuit in court.
This is not one aspect of American`s policies, there may be many hidden secrets plans and schemes which American government has been playing to blackmail poor countries of the world. We hate and condemn these rubbish undergrounds policies of U.S. government being a champion of so-called democracy .Rubbish and useless and waste age of money and energy on these projects only to enslave poor people in the world. America must change its hostile and inhuman policies .
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