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friday, district judge william polley dismissed a lawsuit from the american civil liberties union challengingthe nsa's mass collection of u.s. phone records. he said telephone metadata could have potentially prevented the 9/11 attacks by alerting the government to hijackers who made phone calls from the united states. the issue will likely head to the supreme court. polly's ruling comes less than two weeks after another federal judge questioned the program's constitutionality and described the bulk collection as almost orwellian. the german publication der spiegel has revealed new details about a secretive hacking unit inside the nsa call the office of tailored access operations, or tao. the unit was created in 1997 to hack into global communications traffic. hackers inside the tao have developed a way to break into computers running microsoft windows by gaining passive access to machines when users report program crashes to microsoft. with help from the cia and fbi, the nsa has the ability to intercept computers and other electronic accessories purchased online in order to secretly insert sp

. >> the fire fly wall will be 5 by 5 polley carbon plates that will move with the wind and show a waveaytime. when those also swing back and forth and they hit the fulcrum, it will also set up an led light that will cover the fire fly. so, at nighttime people in another part of san francisco can see the side of our building and about 20 feet wide and 10 stories high will be a wall that will flickr on and off like fire flies at nighttime. it will be so energy efficient that if all those lights go on, it will be the equivalent of a 40 watt bulb. and also the new piece of artwork going all the way down the side of the building, which looks like this incredible wind ripples on a pond. and i thought, oh, my god, how incredible, how wonderful. >> inside the building we will have water walls in the main staircase, and the water will be dripping through the side of the wall. you'll be able to hear it, you'll be able to see it. we call the san francisco artists and galleries and said, hey, we want a building that is a place people want to come to work in and to visit. we're now going to be buyi

judge polley here in new york says it has prevented terrorist attacks. it has been helpful.don't know. >> we as americans, we haven't seen another attack, jeffrey, you know? it's kind of how we look at it, like, okay, we haven't been attacked on our soil since 9/11. >> there have been terrorist acts, the attempted christmas bombing in detroit. >> but thwarted. >> the shooting at the army base. i mean, there have been attempted terrorist attacks. certainly nothing on the scale of 9/11, fortunately, but al qaeda is not gone. and judge polley in new york is making the point that it's not gone and it's still a threat, and that's why we need this program. >> so what do you -- well, paul, i'm curious. i want to know if you guys think it will go all the way to the supreme court? paul? >> yes, i think these things will and we should understand this decision was issued really right at the beginning of the case. there hasn't been any discovery or extentative depositions. this judge said there's no case here, and i'm dismissing, throwing the whole thing out. judge leon on the other han

polley as he dismissed a lawsuit brought by the a.c.l.u. back in june following the edward snowden disclosure that millions of arising customers in the united states were having their phone data collected and stored by the government a.c.l.u. argued such collection violated an individual's fourth amendment right to privacy and their first amendment right to free association but in the fifty four page decision judge poly argued the n.s.a.'s bulk collection program is not being used in a way that violated the constitutional rights about average law abiding americans he notes there is no evidence that the government has used any of the bulk telephony metadata collected for any purpose other than investigating and disrupting terrorist attacks which ruling comes less than two weeks after a federal judge in washington d.c. came to a much different conclusion about the n.s.a.'s bulk phone records collection program judge richard leon ruled the program to be likely unconstitutional arguing i cannot imagine a more indiscriminate an arbitrary invasio

amendment right to free association but in the fifty four page decision judge polley argued the n.s.a.'s bulk collection program is not being used in a way that violated the constitutional rights of average law abiding americans he notes there is no evidence that the government has used any of the bulk telephony metadata collected for any purpose other than investigating and disrupting terrorist attacks this ruling comes less than two weeks after a federal judge in washington d.c. came to a much different conclusion about the n.s.a.'s bulk phone records collection program there judge richard leon ruled the program to be likely unconstitutional arguing i cannot imagine a more indiscriminate an arbitrary invasion and the systematic and high tech collection and retention of personal data on virtually every single citizen for purposes of querying it and analyzing it without judicial approval and with this latest ruling it looks more and more likely the supreme court will be the final arbiter when it comes to the n.s.a.'s spying programs. or more companies are offering us a way to get off