AL-HARAMAIN ISLAMIC FOUNDATION, INC. v. OBAMA

Nos. 11-15468, 11-15535.

705 F.3d 845 (2012)

AL-HARAMAIN ISLAMIC FOUNDATION, INC., an Oregon Nonprofit Corporation; Wendell Belew, a U.S. Citizen and Attorney at Law; Asim Ghafoor, a U.S. Citizen and Attorney at Law, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Barack H. OBAMA, President of the United States, in his official capacity; National Security Agency; Keith B. Alexander, Director of NSA, in his official capacity; Office of Foreign Assets Control, of the U.S. Department of the Treasury; Adam J. Szubin, Director of OFAC, in his official capacity; Federal Bureau of Investigation; Robert S. Mueller, III, Director of FBI, in his official capacity, Defendants-Appellants. Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation, Inc., an Oregon Nonprofit Corporation, Plaintiff, and Wendell Belew, a U.S. Citizen and Attorney at Law; Asim Ghafoor, a U.S. Citizen and Attorney at Law, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Barack H. Obama, President of the United States, in his official capacity; National Security Agency; Keith B. Alexander, Director of NSA, in his official capacity; Office of Foreign Assets Control, of the U.S. Department of the Treasury; Adam J. Szubin, Director of OFAC, in his official capacity; Federal Bureau of Investigation; Robert S. Mueller, III, Director of FBI, in his official capacity, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed August 7, 2012.

Amended December 5, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas N. Letter and Thomas M. Bondy , United States Department of Justice, Civil Division, Washington, D.C., for Defendants-Appellants/Cross-Appellees.

Jon B. Eisenberg , Eisenberg and Hancock, Oakland, CA, for Plaintiffs-Appellees, Cross-Appellants.

Richard A. Samp , Washington Legal Foundation, Washington, D.C., for Amici Curiae James J. Carey, Norman T. Saunders, Thomas L. Hemingway, Washington Legal Foundation, Allied Educational Foundation, and The National Defense Committee.

Cindy A. Cohn , Electronic Frontier Foundation, San Francisco, CA, for Amici Curiae The Electronic Frontier Foundation, The Government Accountability Project, James Bamford, and Former Intelligence, National Security and Military Professionals.

Before: HARRY PREGERSON, MICHAEL DALY HAWKINS, and M. MARGARET McKEOWN, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

McKEOWN, Circuit Judge:

This case, which comes before us a second time, is one of many related to the United States government's Terrorist Surveillance Program, a program that "intercepted international communications into and out of the United States of persons alleged to have ties to Al Qaeda and other terrorist networks." Al-Haramain Islamic Found. v. Bush ("Al-Haramain I"), 507 F.3d 1190, 1192 (9th Cir...

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