Couple hires Larry Klayman; sues Obama, Holder, NSA

Days after it was revealed that the National Security Agency had quietly been granted access to phone records of Verizon customers, a couple in Philadelphia has filed against everyone involved, from the NSA to Verizon to Attorney General Eric Holder to President Obama.

The complaint was filed late last week in a U.S. District Court in Washington D.C. by the couple, and notorious activist attorney (and former federal prosecutor) Larry Klayman. The named plaintiffs in the lawsuit also happen to be the parents of a Navy SEAL who perished in a 2011 helicopter accident in Afghanistan.

“This is an action for violations of the First, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution,” reads the complaint, believed to be the first lawsuit filed over this hot-button issue. “This is also an action for violations of privacy, including intrusion upon seclusion, freedom of expression and association, due process, and other illegal acts.”

The purpose of the suit, says the complaint is to challenge “the legality of Defendants’ participation and conduct in a secret and illegal government scheme to intercept and analyze vast quantities of domestic telephone communications.”

The plaintiffs in the case, which was expanded yesterday to a class-action suit, allege they were a target of NSA phone-probing because they “have been vocal about their criticism of President Obama as commander-in-chief, his administration, and the U.S. military regarding the circumstances surrounding the shoot down of their son’s helicopter in Afghanistan.”

Can we go ahead and guess what party they vote for?