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We begin tonight with the first legal set back for the nsas surveillance program. The federal judge said today that he believesle bulk collection of telephone records is unconstitutional and apparently violates privacy rights. This could be the first of several legal challenges to the ns as intelligence fwaering programs. More from mike viqueira. Reporter judge richard leon ruled that the phone Data Collection that has been so controversial is likely in violation of the constitution, specifically the Fourth Amendment prohibition against unreasonable search and seizure. The ruling was 68pages long. Judge leon writes no court recognized a special need to justify continuous daily searches of virtually every american citizen, but it is important to note in the rules he stayed his injunction that this is unlikely unconstitutional. He wants to give the government time to appeal. For the time being the meta Data Collection continues on without any court stopping it. However, there is this rul

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