Judge Richard Leon:
"I cannot imagine a more 'indiscriminate' and 'arbitrary invasion' than this systematic and high-tech collection and retention of personal data on virtually every citizen for purposes of querying and analyzing it without prior judicial approval. Surely such a program infringes on 'that degree of privacy' that the Founders enshrined in the Fourth Amendment."
"[P]laintiffs in this case have also shown a strong likelihood of success on the merits of a Fourth Amendment claim...as such, they too have adequately demonstrated irreparable injury."
"[T]he government does not cite a single instance in which analysis of the NSA's bulk metadata collection actually stopped an imminent attack, or otherwise aided the government in achieving any objective that was time-sensitive in nature."
Judge Leon's full opinion, from the Wall Street Journal:
http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/JudgeLeonNSAopinion12162013.pdf
"I cannot imagine a more 'indiscriminate' and 'arbitrary invasion' than this systematic and high-tech collection and retention of personal data on virtually every citizen for purposes of querying and analyzing it without prior judicial approval. Surely such a program infringes on 'that degree of privacy' that the Founders enshrined in the Fourth Amendment."
"[P]laintiffs in this case have also shown a strong likelihood of success on the merits of a Fourth Amendment claim...as such, they too have adequately demonstrated irreparable injury."
"[T]he government does not cite a single instance in which analysis of the NSA's bulk metadata collection actually stopped an imminent attack, or otherwise aided the government in achieving any objective that was time-sensitive in nature."
Judge Leon's full opinion, from the Wall Street Journal:
http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/JudgeLeonNSAopinion12162013.pdf
