people to leave classified information. his attorney reported he has been hiding out in russia since june. what more did we learn from the judge s decision today? the suit was brought a week after the first nsa documents were leaked in june about the collection of americans phone records and the judge issuing the opinion, fining the controversial nsa program answer to be in conflict with the fourth amendment, and the key paragraph reads in part, quote, plaintiffs have a very significant expectation of privacy. the nsa s bulk metta data program significantly intrudes on the expectation. i have significant doubts of the efficacy fancy word for efficiency of the meat a metadata program in cases of threat of terrorey. the judge, who was appointed under president george w. bush,
described the nsa program as increment nat and arbitrary invasion of privacy. the judge s ruling has been described as a significant legal setback for the nsa programs and went the last few minutes we had a response from the justice department saying they are reviewing the legal decision but there will be no immediate comment at this time upon it, shepard. do we know any specifics of what this means for the nsa surveillance programs? the judge writes there will be no met action, called a stay on the order because he expects the government to appeal. but the judge lays out a powerful case against the program, fighting the three connections rule which allows analysts to access the spider-web like reach of the phone numbers, with the judge offering as a hypothetical, a new york city resident tagged for review and one of the number his calls on a regular basis is domino s pizza, and under the three hop rule the nsa can now access all of the numbers connected to the domino s number over