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President Bush faces lawsuit over Internet surveillance (World news)

The EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) has filed a lawsuit against President Bush and others in his administration for illegal surveillance of email and telephone calls without a warrant.

The lawsuit was filed on Thursday against the NSA (US National Security Agency), President George Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and other members of his administration.  The EFF appears to have evidence from a former AT&T employee that shows Internet traffic being copied to a secret room in San Francisco which is owned by the NSA.

The EFF already has a lawsuit pending against AT&T for supplying the government with information about its customers to the NSA.

The U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act which was passed earlier this year, grants immunity to telecoms companies that comply with demands from the intelligence services.  The EFF believes this immunity is unconstitutional, but believe they are now going after the root cause of the problem (the NSA, the Bush administration etc).

EFF Senior staff attorney Kevin Bankston said: “For years, the NSA has been engaged in a massive and massively illegal fishing expedition through AT&T’s domestic networks and databases of customer records.  Our goal in this new case against the government, as in our case against AT &T, is to dismantle this dragnet surveillance programme as soon as possible.”