US courts can't seem to agree on whether its mass surveillance actions governmentof the US is against the law or not.
One thing is certain: the White House did not like the recent decision, a federal judge who wanted the US National Security Service to violate the fourth amendment for data protection.
It was first reported by the Agency Reuters, that the US Department of Justice on Friday appealed in an attempt to overturn a decision that wanted the collection of telephone metadata to be unconstitutional.
The judge Richard Leon of the US District Court, in December called the data collection an "indiscriminate and arbitrary intrusion" into the privacy of Americans.
But where things start to get complicated, revealing differing interpretations of the law and the finger of the White House, is when another judge ruled in favor of the NSA's data collection program. U.S. District Judge William Pauley said that the government's efforts to collect all kinds of data is "an important tool” against terrorism and is within the bounds of US 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;
