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Attorney Larry Klayman, the founder\u00a0of Freedom Watch,<\/a> is asking a federal court to hold an emergency hearing on the National Security Agency, alleging \u201clikely\u201d CIA \u201cspying\u201d on President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n In an emergency supplement filed Wednesday with the U.S. District Court in Washington, he said\u00a0the NSA and \u201clikely the Central Intelligence Agency are continuing to violate the [Fourth] Amendment to the Constitution and related statutes.\u201d<\/p>\n Klayman charged the agencies spied on\u00a0President Trump, the White House, his former National Security Adviser General Michael Flynn and others in his administration.<\/p>\n He is requesting an emergency status conference to determine how to proceed.<\/p>\n Klayman\u2019s newest filing was an addition to his argument to the court that his original cases should not be dismissed, as the government wants.<\/p>\n His issue was the government\u2019s program to obtain and keep metadata from all cell phone calls in the country. He brought the first case several years ago.<\/p>\n \u201cWhile the media is focused on the so-called Russian election hacking \u2018scandal,\u2019 it ignores the fact that our own government has committed the biggest violation of constitutional rights in American history, leaving the intelligence agencies free to continue their pattern and practice of violating the law in its intelligence gathering operations,\u201d Klayman argued against a dismissal.<\/p>\n \u201cAs plaintiff Klayman argued in this court on Nov. 18, 2013, \u2018We have never seen in the history of this country this kind of violation of the privacy rights of the American citizens. We live in an Orwellian state.’\u201d<\/p>\n His argument continued, \u201cThis court concurred, finding \u2018the almost-Orwellian technology that enables the government to store and analyze the phone metadata of every telephone user in the United States is unlike anything that could have been conceived in 1979.\u201d<\/p>\n The arguments this week came shortly after Flynn resigned\u00a0as national security adviser over his conversations about sanctions with the Russian ambassador to the U.S. Then on Wednesday followed reports of the leaking of\u00a0information in the Trump administration.<\/p>\n Klayman argued that the district court, which already is well into an advanced position regarding charges\u00a0of government spying, should take up the issue. He pointed out that judges are allowed access to classified information behind closed doors and that the \u201ccontinuing unlawful conduct of the government defendants \u2026 is highly destructive of our republic.\u201d<\/p>\n Klayman charged in a filing before the election: \u201cThe intelligence agencies\u2019 conscious disregard for the law has been ongoing for decades, and there is no reason to believe that, all of a sudden, they will begin to respect the constitutional right of plaintiffs, and all Americans. Indeed, even today, [then-]President-elect Donald Trump credibly accused outgoing CIA chief, John Brennan, who worked with James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, of leaking false news reports and classified information to the media in an attempt to undermine him.\u201d<\/p>\n Trump\u2019s statement at that time was: \u201c\u2018Outgoing CIA chief, John Brennan, blasts Pres-Elect Trump on Russia threat. Does not fully understand.\u2019 Oh really, couldn\u2019t do \u2026 much worse \u2013 just look at Syria (red line), Crimea, Ukraine and the buildup of Russian nukes. Not good! Was this the leaker of Fake News?\u201d<\/p>\n WND reported on Klayman\u2019s case one\u00a0year ago,<\/a> when U.S. District Judge Richard Leon, who previously said the NSA\u2019s\u00a0spy-on-Americans cell phone monitoring program likely is unconstitutional, held\u00a0a status hearing.<\/p>\n The judge had noted the cases were at the \u201cpinnacle of national importance.\u201d<\/p>\n Klayman, at that time, said: \u201cMass surveillance of the citizenry cannot be permitted when it is likely based on reasons that go far beyond catching terrorists. Indeed, as Judge Leon found on two occasions in issuing his prior preliminary injunctions, Obama and his agents at the spy agencies have not been able to cite one instance when the unconstitutional mass surveillance caught even one terrorist.\u201d<\/p>\n In Klayman\u2019s case, Leon ruled Dec. 16, 2013, and again Nov. 9, 2015, that the NSA program likely was unconstitutional, barring the government agency and Obama from \u201cconducting mass telephonic metadata surveillance over the plaintiffs.\u201d<\/p>\n The cases involve not only telephonic metadata mass surveillance, Klayman said, but mass surveillance of all Americans\u2019 Internet and social media activity.<\/p>\n Klayman, at the beginning of the case, originally sued the NSA, Barack Obama, then-Attorney General Eric Holder and a number of other federal officials. Other defendants include NSA chief Keith Alexander, U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Judge Roger Vinson, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, CIA chief John Brennan, FBI chief James Comey, the Department of Justice, the CIA and the FBI.<\/p>\n Plaintiffs in the case include Klayman, Charles and Mary Ann Strange, Michael Ferrari, Matt Garrison and J.J. Little.<\/p>\n Two of America\u2019s influential civil-rights groups<\/a>, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation,<\/a> have sided with Klayman.<\/p>\n The data that the NSA collects, they explained in a brief, \u201creveals political affiliation, religious practices and peoples\u2019 most intimate associations.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt reveals who calls a suicide prevention line and who calls their elected official; who calls the local tea-party office and who calls Planned Parenthood.\u201d<\/p>\n The groups\u2019 brief said \u201cthe relevant fact for whether an expectation of privacy exists is that the comprehensive telephone records the government collects \u2013 not just the records of a few calls over a few days but all of a person\u2019s calls over many years \u2013 reveals highly personal information about the person and her life.\u201d<\/p>\n