The National Rifle Association has filed a court brief in support of the American Civil Liberties Union's case against NSA data trawling. Photograph: Adrees Latif/Reuters
NSA Surveillance: National Rifle Association Backs ACLU Challenge -- The Guardian
Anger at US government's data trawling creates unlikely alliance in court between NRA and American Civil Liberties Union
The National Rifle Association has formed an unlikely alliance with the liberal American Civil Liberties Union in support of a court action over the NSA's collection of phone data of millions of Americans.
The ACLU is challenging the constitutionality of the intelligence agency's action, which was revealed in a top-secret document obtained by the whistleblower Ed Snowden and published in the Guardian in June.
The NRA, in an amicus brief in support of the ACLU, argues that the mass surveillance programme provides "the government not only with the means of identifying members and others who communicate with the NRA and other advocacy groups, but also with the means of identifying gun owners without their knowledge or consent".
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