An unusual attempt to win review of the National Security Agency’s surveillance of domestic telephone records failed in the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday.
The justices, without comment, denied a petition for a writ of mandamus from the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), a Washington nonprofit privacy-rights organization. The petition charged that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court exceeded its statutory authority under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act when it ordered Verizon to turn over “millions of domestic telephone records that cannot plausibly be relevant to an authorized investigation.”
