Obama, NSA, Verizon and DoJ sued for $3B over PRISM

By Larry Klayman, of Judicial Watch; a fringe political group just a tier above Orly Taitz. Read his history (he was all over the spotlight in the '90s during the Clinton administration) before jumping to the conclusion that this is the start of something meaningful.

The fact that a former DOJ prosecutor is pursuing this is a very good sign. I am very happy that it&#x27;s someone whose credentials cannot be called into question.<p>I still think it stands no chance at all but it&#x27;s great to see it happening. I wonder what would stop say a good 2&#x2F;3 of the country from jumping in on this case? I know I haven&#x27;t personally used Verizon as I don&#x27;t have a contract with them but I&#x27;m sure my calls have been snooped on since I can&#x27;t help but call people who do have Verizon contracts.

Please change the obviously-incorrect title. PRISM is not involved in this suit.<p>The suit is about the gathering of Verizon metadata.<p>PRISM, as it has been publically alleged, has nothing to do with this. PRISM is an alleged program that involves SiVa tech companies, and involves spending $20 M to magically ingest, sort, and dispense basically all the traffic of half a dozen of the biggest IT companies in the world. (In case my bias wasn&#x27;t clear, I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s possible to do with $20M.)<p>Note that the word &quot;prism&quot; appears nowhere in the legal document. Because Larry Klayman has the basic literacy skills to keep apples and oranges distinct, unlike the scribd uploader.

Former AUSA (Assistant US Attorney) or not, &quot;He who represents himself has a fool for a client&quot;. Might be entertaining though. He may at least get a headline or two when it is thrown out, which will be good because this whole thing will die from the headlines in about a week, and the vast majority of Americans will go back to being blissfully ignorant.

I stopped reading at &quot;Barack Hussein Obama.&quot; That name is the clearest signal of ideological intellectual dishonesty that I&#x27;ve yet found.

Pretty amusing, although it&#x27;s (obviously) going to be thrown out.

I&#x27;d say it&#x27;s safe to say that Klayman is &#x27;functionally insane.&#x27;<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rightwingwatch.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;klayman-jews-behind-gay-marriage-irs-scandal" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rightwingwatch.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;klayman-jews-behind-ga...</a><p>It&#x27;s a very reasoned argument he makes, the one where Jews are to blame for gay marriage.<p>No. No, it&#x27;s actually not. It&#x27;s pretty crazy. It sucks that this is the first lawsuit.

Remember, you can only sue the government to the extent that it lets you. If the powers that be decide that they are immune, then they are. If they decide to give immunity to Verizon for complying with government orders then poof! they have immunity. It&#x27;s a noble idea, but the courts will not solve this issue. I think ultimately the government will not be able to fix itself, one branch cannot fix another branch.

Why is Bush missing from this?

Quick search for telecom immunity shows me that hn forgot that Verizon, et al are exempt from such prosecutions after the GOP pushed for said immunity in the late aughts. That was a good fight the dems put up against this sort of thing, but alas. Not to mention the fact that no laws seem to have been broken, only the heart of a libertarian redditor.

Its going to be interesting to see how this plays out. Its an exciting episode in the new technological age of &#x27;freedom of speech&#x27;

oh come on, if you&#x27;re going to sue Obama, NSA, Verizon, and DoJ, go for broke: $TEXAS.

Um ... for PRISM, shouldn&#x27;t they be suing Google, Facebook, Apple, etc?

Perfect. And then when they lose and need to pay a bunch of lawyers $3B, someone will go shake the money tree and a bunch of tax payers will fall out to foot the bill.