The United States Court Of Appeals For The Ninth Circuit has decided that some Somali immigrants are guilty of sending money to terrorists even though the evidence against them was probably gathered illegally.
The panel affirmed the convictions of four members of the Somali diaspora for sending, or conspiring to send, $10,900 to Somalia to support a foreign terrorist organization, in an appeal that raised complex questions regarding the U.S. government's authority to collect bulk data about its citizens' activities under the auspices of a foreign intelligence investigation, as well as the rights of criminal defendants when the prosecution uses information derived from foreign intelligence surveillance.