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Sovereign Immunity

Obama Administration Claims "Sovereign Immunity" in Attempt to Dismiss Lawsuit Against NSA over Domestic Surveillance

We speak to attorney and blogger Glenn Greenwald about how the Department of Justice has demanded the dismissal of a lawsuit brought by the Electronic Frontier Foundation based on "state secrets" and "sovereign immunity." Greenwald says the "sovereign immunity" claim is "of breathtaking scope-never before advanced even by the Bush administration-that the PATRIOT Act bars any lawsuits of any kind for illegal government surveillance unless there is 'willful disclosure' of the illegally intercepted communications." Ref. Source 1

Immunity Sovereign

From what I am reading Obama is saying that the Patriot ACt that was passed give the government the right to break any law they want and they can not get sued for it? I knew the Patriot Act was something that should not have been passed and I remember telling my Congressmen not to vote for it. Now that it is in and has been in play for a while we are now just starting to see some of the stuff in it that really scares me in the power it gives to the government.