To: koan who wrote (761934 ) 1/7/2014 1:54:12 AM From: Broken_Clock Read Replies (1) | Respond to Gee, You just realize now that Obummer is another Clinton? Are you finally waking up?ruled that a National Security Agency program that collects enormous troves of phone records is legal, making the latest contribution to an extraordinary debate among courts and a presidential review group about how to balance security and privacy in the era of big data.Read All Comments (877) » ruled that the program was “almost Orwellian” and probably unconstitutional.William H. Pauley III (born 1952) is a United States federal judge .Glen Cove, New York , Pauley received an A.B. from Duke University in 1974 and a J.D. from Duke University School of Law in 1977. He was a law clerk , Office of the Nassau County Attorney, New York from 1977 to 1978. He was a Deputy county attorney of Nassau County Attorney' Office, New York in 1978. He was in private practice in New York City from 1978 to 1998. He was an Assistant counsel, New York State Assembly Minority Leader, New York from 1984 to 1998.United States District Court for the Southern District of New York . Pauley was nominated by President Bill Clinton on May 21, 1998, to a seat vacated by Peter K. Leisure . He was confirmed by the United States Senate on October 21, 1998, and received his commission on October 22, 1998.Ben-ami Kadish , a U.S. national who pleaded guilty to passing classified information to Israel. On December 27, 2013, he also ruled that the NSA's bulk collection of metadata on nearly every phone call made in the United States is legal. [1] [2] Pauley's ruling contrasted with a ruling of a similar suit in the D.C. District by Richard J. Leon . [3]
