Groups Challenge Warrantless E-Mail Spying Law

Congress approved the FISA Amendments Act after a bruising battle this summer, and President Bush has signed it into law. Now comes the hard part: proving the constitutionality of the controversial law that essentially gives telephone companies legal protection from more than 40 civil lawsuits claiming the carriers provided customer telephone and e-mail records of millions of U.S. citizens--often without a warrant or subpoena--to the government. - Congress may have decided to grant retroactive immunity to telecoms that helped the National Security Agency eavesdrop on American's telephone calls and e-mail, but now it's time to see what the courts have to say about the constitutionality of the law. The EFF (Electronic Frontier F...