But Cindy Cohn, staff lawyer for EFF, said its main objective was to get the courts to rule on the legality of the eavesdropping program, which the group maintains violates the Constitution.
Only China, the critics maintain, has violated the moratorium.
They maintained that this violated an agreement between international forces and the United Nations that the military's primary role should be to provide security and, only when there is no other alternative, to provide limited developmental and humanitarian assistance.
"The Probation Department cannot now maintain that Meskini violated the conditions of his supervised release by performing work-related tasks," the judge said.
So, one of the main justifications offered to the first branch of the US government is that the war in Libya is justified by a UNresolution, the credibility of which must be maintained even while violating it.
Welch and Johnson maintain that they violated no laws in paying more than $1 million to I.O.C. delegates and their families in the form of cash payments, scholarships, medical treatment and expensive gifts.
The former, Justice Alito maintained, does not violate reasonable expectations of privacy; the latter does.
Meanwhile the United States, the far more culpable actor, maintains that it violated no rights, and that Mr. Arar has no remedy".
In the lawsuit, Minor and Gomes maintained their rights were violated and sought reinstatement and damages.
The United States maintained that the gasoline violated its clean-air statutes.
