Huge Blow to Bush's Wiretapping Program Today

Thu, 08/17/2006 - 12:30pm — chicago dyke

Judge Taylor has ruled that the NSA non-FISA wiretapping of US citizens is unconstitutional.
TP all over it.

ACLU reports that the Gov't has already told them they'll be taking it to the Circiut court this afternoon for an injunction.

ACLU Director Romero: Spectre's bill is "window dressing." He believes it won't have much of an impact on this decision, or it's chances of being overturned by the 6th circuit. "We will persue this as far as we need to." Meaning, even to the SCOTUS.

ACLU Melissa Goodman: The state secrets part of this ruling is really significant. It's a check on excessive claims of secrecy by the goverment.

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21:03:43 lambert Thanks, Jeff.
18:16:03 Jeff W lambert, I wrote to NOW about that Elizabeth Warren video not playing and got a response of sorts back, which I sent to you as a private PM. Just FYI.
02:28:28 hipparchia the first thing they told us my volunteer training: humans are natural born rescuers.
00:18:34 lambert One more study... [url]
23:57:37 lambert Joe Bageant is god. [url]
01:00:54 lambert The actuary was a whistleblower under Bush, too. [url]
00:47:48 hipparchia that's ok, jason stands ready to help smear the actuary quoted in that wapo article [url]
23:16:16 lambert Elders under the bus on Medicare, naturally. [url]
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20:10:18 lambert Capitalism in a world where we will throw as many taxpayers under the bus as necessary....
19:49:09 hipparchia elizabeth warren for president!
02:24:14 Jeff W Elizabeth Warren on the economy on PBS's NOW: you can watch it online here: [url] "If [Congress] gets it wrong, the country we knew is gone."
17:52:53 Davidson So, of course they're not going to show the truth about boxing her in from the beginning.
17:51:57 Davidson Yeah, that was just a comment in general, like, "Not even the RBC decision warranted scrutiny."
15:38:02 lambert That's not the RBC meeting, though. That's the smoking gun, beyond "Smart politics" (Wolfson).
14:17:16 Davidson Notice how everyone still avoids exposing the RBC decision
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02:05:14 Jeff W lambert, your "especially with Obama's youthful base" link here [url] is broken. :(