Philly Couple, Activist Lawyer File Lawsuit over NSA Collection of Verizon Records

The suit is the first to be filed after the Guardian disclosed last week that a secret court order required Verizon to hand over call data from millions of customers to the NSA.

Charles Strange, father of Fallen Navy SEAL Team 6 member Michael J. Strange canadafreepress.com

(PHILADELPHIA) - A Philadelphia couple and an activist attorney have filed a class-action lawsuit over the National Security Agency's collection of Verizon customers' records.

The suit, filed in federal court in D.C., contends that the NSA's surveillance violates Verizon users' "reasonable expectation of privacy, free speech and association, right to be free of unreasonable searches and seizures, and due process rights."

The lawsuit was filed by activist lawyer Larry Klayman, the founder of Judicial Watch and a former federal prosecutor, and Charles and Mary Ann Strange. Charles Strange is the father of Navy SEAL Michael Strange, who was killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan in 2011.

The suit is the first to be filed after the Guardian disclosed last week that a secret court order required Verizon to hand over call data from millions of customers to the NSA.

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