NSA Wiretap Program Declared Illegal
March 31, 2010 at 3:04 PM 1 comment
The National Security Agency broke the law when it wiretapped two American lawyers working for the El-Haramain Charity Foundation, an influential judge ruled Wednesday.
The government is almost certain to appeal this long-awaited decision, as it touches on subjects ranging from the state secrets privilege to the breadth of President Bush’s “Terrorist Surveillance Program.”
The ruling is a major victory for civil libertarians, and the first time that the TSP has been declared illegal. The case has bounced back and forth from District Court Judge Vaughn Walker, the chief judge for federal courts in Northern California, to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which rejected a government motion to dismiss it entirely.
It will be years before this is finally resolved but this is a start.
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M. Douglas Wray | March 31, 2010 at 7:18 PM
EVERYONE involved – right down the AT&T techs that helped install the hardware – should HANG for this. We gave these lying crimminals a 30-day window to spy without a warrant and it still wasn’t enough. Bush is a crimminal, plain and simple and he should be found guilty and sent in front of a firing squad.