Judge Weighing Spy Program Shutdown - Hearing Set Nov. 18 For Case Asking For Order to Pull Plug On NSA's PRISM

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A federal judge has told government attorneys to answer by Nov. 11 a request for a court decision to shut down the National Security Agency’s PRISM spy program.

The ruling came in a District of Columbia courtroom in a case brought by attorney Larry Klayman of Freedom Watch on behalf of several plaintiffs.

Klayman, a former U.S. Justice Department prosecutor, is asking for orders that the NSA spy program that collects communications data on millions of people be “immediately stopped, and all illegally obtained and unauthorized records of plaintiffs and all American citizens purged.”

He has filed a request for preliminary injunctions to halt Washington’s access to the information. The next hearing in the case is scheduled Nov. 18

“It is unbelievable that the American people are now living a horror story like this,” he said. “Even George Orwell could not have envisioned this outrage, with hundreds of millions of Americans being spied on, and coerced into submission by a tyrannical government.

“If this had been 1776, our Founding Fathers, being considered subversives by King George III, would have never made it to Philadelphia to debate and sign the Declaration of Independence. Their communications would have been intercepted, and they would have been arrested and executed on the spot.”

Klayman, who also is planning a Nov. 19 “Reclaim America Now” rally in Washington, said that “237 years later, the American people are again under the rule of a despot, Barack Hussein Obama, who undoubtedly will attempt to use the NSA to coerce his adversaries, at a minimum, into silence, and thus head off a people’s revolt.”

“The people’s grievances are not being heard by either major political party and the NSA’s PRISM surveillance, which is endorsed by many in Congress on both sides of the aisle, is intended to squelch dissent and intimidate We the People into not standing up to our corrupt government leaders,” he said.

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