Posted on 10/09/2009 4:20:57 PM PDT by Nachum
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A lawyer for the Obama administration said on Friday it had no position on the legality of the former Bush administration's program to intercept Americans' e-mails and phone calls without a warrant.
The lawyer spoke at a 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals hearing on a lawsuit in which 16 lawyers representing Guantanamo Bay detainees demanded the government release records of electronic surveillance they believe was conducted without a warrant concerning their clients' cases.
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The list, ping
He can vote present and make it look like a decision.
No, silly, the Bush era is over. This is the Obama era. They’ll be Obama era wiretaps now.
Sheesh...
This is a myth.
No one has ever admitted, demonstrated, or proven “warrantless wiretapping” or “eavesdropping” at any time. Both of those require the interception of voice communication.
The intercepts that have been discussed were the equivalents of trap and trace and pen register programs, which is capturing telephone numbers (and possibly email addresses). In the United States both are given the lowest possible level of scrutiny by the courts, for the simple reason that phone numbers are not “owned” by the user nor are they considered “private.”
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