A federal judge in New York ruled that the federal program monitoringof telephones is perfectly legal.
The US District Judge William Pauley issued the decision on Friday. According to the ruling, the program "represents the government's defense of eliminating the al-Qaida terrorist network by linking fragmented communications collected from telephonedata.
In accordance with ABC in his decision, the judge did not fail to recall the terrorist attacks of September eleventh and how the system telephone collection data could help them researchers to connect the dots before the attacks.
You know now, the well-known excuse that reassures Americans by making them consider their government surveillance a necessary evil. Continuing to substantiate his ruling, the judge said the government had learned from its mistake and "adapted to face a new enemy:" A terrorist network capable of orchestrating attacks around the world, "so the data collection program is part of of this adaptation.
ACLU's lawsuit was dismissed. So far there is no official response from the ACLU.