The US courts seem to be unable to agree on whether the US government's mass surveillance activities are in violation of the law or not.
One thing's for sure: The White House didn't like a federal judge's recent ruling that wanted the collection programs data of the US National Security Agency to violate the fourth amendment for data protection.
It was first reported by the Reuters Agency, that the Ministry The U.S. Justice Department appealed Friday in an attempt to overturn the ruling that found the collection of phone metadata unconstitutional.
U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon in December called the data collection an "indiscriminate and arbitrary intrusion" into American privacy.
But the point where things start to get complicated, revealing the different interpretation of the law and the White House finger is when another judge ruled in favor of the NSA data collection program. U.S. District Attorney William Pauley said the government's efforts to collect all kinds of data are "an important tool" against terrorism and are within the bounds of U.S. law.
What is certain is that at some point the Supreme Court will be involved, which will have to take on the responsibility, which the government does not take on, without being influenced by it. The three powers (legislative, executive and judicial), after all, in order for there to be a Democracy, must be independent;
