So there you have it. The Electronic Frontier Foundation says President Obama’s DOJ is even worse than President Bush’s. What really rubs the EFF lawyers the wrong way?
Sad as that is, it’s the Department Of Justice’s second argument that is the most pernicious. The DOJ claims that the U.S. Government is completely immune from litigation for illegal spying — that the Government can never be sued for surveillance that violates federal privacy statutes.This is a radical assertion that is utterly unprecedented. No one — not the White House, not the Justice Department, not any member of Congress, and not the Bush Administration — has ever interpreted the law this way.
Well, I’m not surprised. President Obama and his administration has shown blatant disrespect for the Constitution and other principles of our Republic.
