Common Ground: National Security Agency

National Security Agency: U.S. rights activists, church leaders and drug and gun rights advocates found common ground and filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the federal government to halt a vast National Security Agency electronic surveillance program, according to The Chronicle Herald. Filed in federal court in San Francisco, it challenges what the plaintiffs describe as an illegal and unconstitutional program of dragnet electronic surveillance and The lawsuit was filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which represents the unusually broad coalition of plaintiffs, and seeks an injunction against the NSA, Justice Department, FBI and directors of the agencies. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.