The ACLU had challenged the legality of the NSA program, saying it intercepted “without benefit of warrant or other judicial approval” the international telephone and Internet communications of numerous people and organizations in the U.S. It said the program had substantially chilled and impaired its clients’ constitutionally protected communications.
Critics of the program have argued that the administration should use the powers granted it under FISA.
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