Via Democracy Now:
Rocky Anderson, former mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah, has filed a lawsuit over government surveillance of phone, text and email communications that the Bush administration allegedly conducted during the 2002 Winter Olympics. He argues they put a “surveillance cone” over a broad geographic area and violated surveillance laws enacted in the 1970s after the Church Committee hearings exposed similar civil rights abuses.
According to Anderson, the surveillance constitutes a felony under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. His lawsuit is against the FBI, the NSA, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and others, none of whom have denied the accusations.
