Posted on 01/17/2006 11:55:18 AM PST by Man50D
You’d never know it from our one party media’s coverage of this story, but the "plaintiff" in the trumped-up New York lawsuit is none other than the granddaughter of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg — Rachel Meeropol.
The Rosenbergs were executed in 1953 for helping to pass US atom bomb secrets to the Soviet Union. Julius’s KGB nom de guerre was "Liberal."
Rachel is a Communist in her own right. She is a Vice President of the New York City chapter of the communist National Lawyers Guild.
Ms Meerpol is also a fixture in may of the most ultra left organizations out there, such as The Children Of Resistance.
But you’d never know any of that from the DNC’s Associated Press:Associated Press
Groups Sue to Stop Domestic Spying Program
By LARRY NEUMEISTER, Associated Press Writer
Federal lawsuits were filed Tuesday seeking to halt President Bush’s domestic eavesdropping program, calling it an "illegal and unconstitutional program" of electronic eavesdropping on American citizens.
The lawsuits accusing Bush of exceeding his constitutional powers were filed in federal court in New York by the Center for Constitutional Rights and in Detroit by the American Civil Liberties Union.
The New York suit, filed on behalf of the center and individuals, names Bush, the head of the National Security Agency, and the heads of the other major security agencies, challenging the NSA’s surveillance of persons within the United States without judicial approval or statutory authorization.
It asked a judge to stop Bush and government agencies from conducting warrantless surveillance of communications in the United States.
The Detroit suit, which also names the NSA, was filed by the ACLU, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Greenpeace and several individuals.
Messages seeking comment were left Tuesday morning with the National Security Agency and the Justice Department.
Bush, who said the wiretapping is legal and necessary, has pointed to a congressional resolution passed after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, that authorized him to use force in the fight against terrorism as allowing him to order the program.
The program authorized eavesdropping of international phone calls and e-mails of people deemed a terror risk.
But the New York lawsuit noted that federal law already allows the president to conduct warrantless surveillance during the first 15 days of a war and allows court authorization of surveillance for agents of foreign powers or terrorist groups.
Instead of following the law, Bush "unilaterally and secretly authorized electronic surveillance without judicial approval or congressional authorization," the lawsuit said.
At a news conference, Center for Constitutional Rights Legal Director Bill Goodman portrayed the president as a man on an unprecedented power grab at the expense of basic democratic principles.
He said the public was starting to understand the assertion that the erosion of individual rights is a slippery slope that lets the government "brand anyone a terrorist with no right to counsel, no right to be brought before a judge and no right to privacy in communications."
The Detroit lawsuit said the plaintiffs, who frequently communicate by telephone and e-mail with people in the Middle East and Asia, have a "well-founded belief" that their communications are being intercepted by the government.
"By seriously compromising the free speech and privacy rights of the plaintiffs and others, the program violates the First and Fourth Amendments of the United States Constitution," the lawsuit states.
In its suit in New York, the Center for Constitutional Rights maintained its work was directly affected by the surveillance because its lawyers represent a potential class of hundreds of Muslim foreign nationals detained after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
It said its attorney-client privilege was likely violated as it represented hundreds of men detained without charge as enemy combatants at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Station and a Canadian citizen who was picked up at a New York airport while changing planes, sent to Syria and tortured and detained without charges for nearly a year.
The group said the surveillance program has inhibited its ability to represent clients vigorously, making it hard to communicate via telephone and e-mail with overseas clients, witnesses and others for fear the conversations would be overheard.
Plaintiff Rachel Meeropol, an attorney at the center, said she believes she has been targeted. "I’m personally outraged that my confidential communication with my clients may have been listened to by the U.S. government," she said.If what Ms Meeropol says is true, one suspects she has been having speaks with Al Qaeda members.
Of course Rachel’s father, Robert Meeropol, didn’t fall far from the Rosenbergs’ tree either. Among his many accomplishments, Mr Meeropol is an avowed Communist supporter. Fidel Castro was his boyhood idol. He supports convicted cop killer Mumia Abu Jamal. He is the founder and Executive Director of the ultra radical Rosenberg Fund for Children.
Mr Meeropol is also adamantly opposed to the War On Terror.
Good Lord, they breed communists ugly these days.
Keerist, she's ugly!! At least the legal babes on our side are good looking ones like Ann Coulter and Debbie Schlussel. Damn smart women and very easy on the eyes. And yes, I'm a chauvinist pig..oink.oink.
No, the reporter just realized it doesn't help his story to point out that she's the granddaughter of executed communist spies.
Looks like Jeneane Garafola (I don't care if the stupid broad's name is misspelled)
She is as ugly as her grandmother proving, once again, that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree!
They were thrown under the bus.. They were not alone.. Guilty true but diversions from the real hanky panky in Trumans Administration.. and FDR's too.. Scape goats.. Guilty scape goats..
to be honest, I haven't laughed this hard in weeks! What a GREAT day this has been!
First we find out that Liberals much-vaunted "Poll" is actually a heavily front-loaded Push-Poll paid for by the After-Downing Street loon...
Then we find out that this loon wants Bush charged with Crimes Aainst Humanity because of Bush's Abstinence Program...
Then we find out the ACLU Eavesdropping Claimant is the Communist Grand-daughter of executed traitors, who frequently commuicated with Mid-East Front Groups overseas!
Then we find out that Gore lied in Yesterday's speech, while begging MoveOn for MONEY!!!!!!
She looks like Ben Stein (who I love, BTW). She needs some serious eyebrow plucking.
Guess being a traitor is a hereditary trait.
Not necessarily true. You should find Ron Radosh's book, his autobiography. I think it's called "Commies." He knew the Rosenbergs and their children and demonstrated for them. Later, he began to research them to prove their innocence and found just the opposite to be true. It was the beginning of his path to conservatism.
Wishful thinking. The USA will never arrest another person for treason or sedition again. "Treason" and "sedition" are now protected as free speech.
I wonder if she knows that her grandparents were traitors? Even the Soviet Union admitted that they were.
I was tapped once. I didn't realize it until later because I was too dense to know what was happening. The only reason I can think is that I was engaged to a Canadian journalist and during the first Iraq war, I asked him once what he was hearing that wasn't making the papers. And he told me. Unfortunately, I don't remember what it was.
If she wanted to know, she could easily find out. One of the interesting things to me in Radosh's book was how fellow travelers monitored what each other read. He was reading something once when he was visited by a fellow Communist. The guy went off on him when he saw what Radosh was reading. They "protect" each other from truth. It's effective. Sounds a bit like the fatwahs that are today pronounced against writers who say things the powers that be in the Middle East don't want heard.
Needs to be kept in public eye to remind Americans what we once stood for. The lib. dems. are doing worse than the Rosenburgs but no-one seems to care.
From that era to now shows how much the libs have weakened our security in America.
America needs another Harry Truman, put a few nuclar divices up the libs a** and pull the triger.
Another Marxist Kabuki dance. She knows her suit will be thrown out because she has no plaintiff and can show no harm was done to any citizen. She also knows the press will protect her identity for as long as possible and when her suit is tossed, it will be whispered on back pages.
Unfortunately, I think we will indeed see it. Except it will be freethinkers. Conservatives. I hope I'm wrong.
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