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April 19, 2010

Group Challenges Revised Surveillance Law
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A group of journalists, attorneys and human rights activists are
challenging revisions to US surveillance laws that they say are
hampering their ability to do their work. On Friday, members of the
group told a federal appeals court they’ve been forced to forgo
communicating by phone or email out of fear of government surveillance.
The revised 2008 surveillance law dropped a requirement that the
government identify the subjects of its surveillance. Joanne Mariner of
Human Rights Watch says she’s made three recent trips to meet former CIA
prisoners in Jordan to avoid speaking to them by phone.



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