“Klayman originally filed the lawsuit last week as the sole plaintiff. On Sunday, Charles and Mary Anne Strange — a Philadelphia couple whose son Michael, a US Navy Seal, was killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan in 2011 (see related story) — joined the suit as a class action. “Somebody has to be held accountable for my son’s death. Thirty brave Americans, the biggest loss in the Afghan war. And that’s when I started asking questions, that’s when my phone got tapped,” Strange said. Strange claims he heard tapping noises while on the phone and he says he started getting odd texts shortly after his son’s death. “I called Verizon, ‘I have a text 001 and 002’ and I called them up and I said ‘who’s this?’ and they said it’s somebody listening in from the United States, and someone from Afghanistan,” Strange explained. The plaintiffs say they have been highly critical of the current administration and are likely targets. “They feel that they have a duty here,” Klayman tells KYW Newsradio. “And it’s very likely that their telephone calls, because they have been critical, are being monitored as well.” Klayman says the lawsuit potentially seeks billions in compensatory and punitive damages, as well as an order stopping the government surveillance.”
Posted on: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 07:28:46 +0000
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