On Monday, 14 law professors and former federal government officials, including Ronald Dworkin, Laurence Tribe, and Ronald Dworkin sent a letter to congressional leaders. In it is a critique of Justice’s argument on the constitutionality of the NSA program and it worth a read.

I think my opinion on this matter would be easy to figure out. I do not want to give any lengthy commentary since there are many other blogs who have handled the matter. However, from what I have read and what I understand of constitutional law, this illegal government spying on Americans is a clear violation of individual rights. Particularly, this run around civil liberties is unnecessarily. The intelligence agency has the capacity to read your mail, your email and your telephone conversation. It does have to obtain a warrant from a special court created for this purpose. The burden of proof was even relaxed after 9/11! Either way the court very rarely rejects requests making this expansion unnecessary in addition to illegal in my mind.