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DIANA MAG NAY, CNN, MOSCOW.
>> SO THIS JUST IN NOW TO CNN.
THIS INVOLVING THE BOAT BULK
COLLECTION OF DATA BY THE NSA.
A U.S. DISTRICT COURT JUDGE HAS
RULED THAT COLLECTION IS LEGAL.
THIS GOES AGAINST A RULING A FEW
WEEKS AGO IN WHICH A D.C. JUDGE
RULED IT IS NOT LEGAL.
OUR CNN JUSTICE REPORTER EVAN
PEREZ JOINING US FROM D.C. TO
EXPLAIN MORE CONFLICT OVER THIS
ISSUE.
SO WHICH RULING I GUESS
SUPERSEDES THE OTHER?
>> WELL, FREDRICKA, BOTH RULINGS
ARE EQUAL.
THEY'RE BOTH FEDERAL CIRCUIT
COURT JUDGES.
SO WHAT THIS ALL MEANS IS THAT
THE NSA WILL PROBABLY STILL GET
TO CONTINUE THE PROGRAM FOR THE
TIME BEING.
AND THEN WE WILL PROBABLY SEE A
SUPREME COURT HAVE TO RULE ON
WHETHER OR NOT THIS IT IS LEGAL
SOMETIME.
IT WILL PROBABLY HAPPEN SOONER
RATHER THAN LATER.
THIS RULING TODAY FROM A
COURT -- FROM A JUDGE IN NEW
YORK BASICALLY HE SAID THAT
THESE ARE BLUNT TOOLS THAT THEY
COLLECT EVERYTHING.
AND HE SAID THAT THERE IS
POTENTIAL FOR ABUSE, BUT HE
FINDS THAT THE PROGRAM THAT THE
NSA IS RUNNING WHICH IS
COLLECTING DATA ON NEARLY EVERY
PHONE CALL MADE IN THE UNITED
STATES HE FINDS THAT THAT
PROGRAM IS LEGAL.
NOW, THIS AS YOU SAID, IS IN
CONTRAST TO A RULING LAST WEEK
FROM A JUDGE IN D.C. WHO FOUND
THAT THE PROGRAM HE CALLED IT
ALMOST ORWELLIAN AND LIKELY
UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
SO BOTH JUDGES ARE LOOKING AT
THE SAME PROGRAM AND COMING TO
VERY DIFFERENT DIFFERENT
OPINIONS ON IT, FREDRICKA.
>> WE'LL SEE HOW AND WHEN IT MAY