You won’t see this anywhere else:
A federal judge on Wednesday said the George W. Bush administration illegally eavesdropped on the telephone conversations of two American lawyers who represented a now-defunct Saudi charity.
The lawyers alleged some of their 2004 telephone conversations to Saudi Arabia were siphoned to the National Security Agency without warrants. The allegations were initially based on a classified document the government accidentally mailed to the former Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation lawyers. The document was later declared a state secret and removed from the long-running lawsuit weighing whether a sitting U.S. president may create a spying program to eavesdrop on Americans’ electronic communications without warrants.
Wow, this story isn’t something I’d normally take seriously, but damned if that Hitler picture didn’t change my mind!
/rolleyes
I thought international phone calls were automatically able to be wiretapped at will after the Patriot Act.
“Obama administration has argued that warrantless tracking is permitted because Americans enjoy no “reasonable expectation of privacy”"
They are dividing and conquering. Republican or Democrat, two heads of the same beast.
They don’t work for you.
Well if you have nothing to hide then there’s no need to be afraid. Our gov’t would never do anything untoward to violate an innocent’s rights!
What does wiretapping have to do with Hitler? Better off putting up pictures of the current Chinese leadership.
All you partisan assholes just perpetuate the problem and make it easy for the corrupt to mislead us. Nobody but the Democrat and Republican Parties is responsible for driving our country and its Constitution into the mud. For 150 years these 2 parties have put their desire to dominate the world before their patriotism to the country they pretend to protect.
Wake up, and grow up. The Dems and Repubs ARE the problem not the solution. If you believe otherwise you are a fool!!!
I doubt the Tea Baggers have anything better in mind, they just want to run things. That’s why the Dems didn’t object to Bush’s perversion of our democracy. They just wanted their turn to abuse the Constitution too.
Government always sucks. So do Revolutions because they are just more government.
Just say no to Government!
@Micromike
Some say that the influence and power of the two political parties has recently led us to a defacto state of dictorship where choice is but a corporate-sponsored illusion.
And yes, the Tea Baggers are corporate sponsored too from that corporate mouthpiece Ben Gleck and funded by 2 [lamo] Republican Senators.
So we have pestilence on one side and plague on the other side … two non-choices of canned ham.
At least the more sophisticated canned ham is the president, but I am sort of confused to the party branding with the offshore drilling and the more troops in Afghanistan thing going on …
It was funny up until state security tampered with court evidence. What is in a court, stays in a court until judged upon. This stinks.
“Thats entertainment”
#11 Why do you waste time arguing with a sheeple?
#11 Why you, Capitalist Commie (holding fist in air).
“You won’t see this anywhere else”
except from every news source available, seen nothing but this for 2 days
Yawn… The potentially millions of us who probably had our data and calls illegally monitored by the NSA have no proof that they did, so other judges have decided that everything is just AOK since we can’t and, besides, the telcoms have been had their illegal behavior retroactively legalized.
It’s easy to say “move on” if _YOU_ didn’t have your civil rights violated.
As for the Bush-Hitler analogy, I don’t agree and never have. But, I’m an American living comfortably in the homeland.
The millions of grieving and exiled Iraqis surely have some strong and valid opinions about Bush — opinions we’d be wise to listen to.
Thank heavens the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation wasn’t a terrorist front… oh wait, it was.
No explanation of WHY the Foundation is “now defunct”… seems a bit dishonest, doesn’t it?
http://www.ustreas.gov/press/releases/hp1043.htm
As for Bush-Hitler, imagine the outrage if in 1942, the FBI had tapped the phone conversations between the US German-Bund lawyers and Germany.
This ain’t over until each and every member of Bushco, Inc. is in the slammer!
Screw the lawsuits, it’s only money. The only way that these criminals, and their followers will learn, is if they spend a long, hard time in the Crowbar Hotel!
Bush clearly threw out the constitution. The story here is that Obama’s Justice department has a choice to continue this by appeal or will there be “change you can believe in.”
The ball is in your court Mr. President.
No one else is concerned that the gov’t mailed this document to the people they were wiretapping? I can’t believe no one posted “and these are the people who’ll be running our health care.”
#35 Great! As long as they’re guilty, it’s OK to trash the constitution, right? And we all know that government spying is only done on guilty people, right? Right?
I won’t see it anywhere else but I certainly heard it on NPR.