NSA et écoute téléphonique: inconstitutionnel selon un juge d'une cour fédérale

Même James Madison, rédacteur de la Constitution et Président des États-Unis, serait contre affirme le juge Richard Leon. On remet officiellement en question le programme de la NSA et on peut prédire que le dossier se retrouvera éventuellement devant la Cour Suprême. Toutes les réflexions impliqueront le quatrième amendement à la Constitution.

 "Government lawyers and the judges who found the NSA program legal pointed to a 1979 Supreme Court ruling, Smith v. Maryland, which found no search warrant was needed by police to install a device which recorded the numbers dialed on a particular phone line.

 But Leon said the three-decade-old precedent was not applicable to a program like the NSA’s because of its sophistication and because telephone use has become far more intense in recent years.

 “The ubiquity of phones has dramatically altered the quantity of information that is now available and, more importantly, what that information can tell the Government about people’s lives,” the judge wrote. “I cannot possible navigate these uncharted Fourth Amendment waters using as my North Star a case that predates the rise of cell phones.”

 http://www.politico.com/story/2013/12/national-security-agency-phones-judge-101203.html?hp=t1