Rosenbergs’ Granddaughter Sues NSA Over Spying

Sweetness-Light.com ^ | January 17, 2006

[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.

[devolve]

Not until now

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I have talked to Ron Kuby on air

- His old partner's wife refused to allow him to use the original lawfirm name - Kuby had a "handshake" partnership contract

Stumped him with a LI killer scenario

Ron is a firearms owner himself


I asked Kuby on air if he saw me on a NYC bus coming towards him with a .45 pointed at him if he would draw and fire first


.....Ron Kuby said he would

I had sandbagged him with careful setups as I have Cuomo and Morris on air in their "very short" tryouts at WABC 770am NYC


Kuby is getting to be a surburban Conservative in many ways now

Lobster & steak for his neighbors on the grill outside

Some Commie with a reliable income and schedule now


Funny stuff -

[maxwellp]

More communist than liberal Jews. It does make some sense, I guess to them, but not to me.

[Calpernia]

Pinging you back for good info here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1559773/posts?page=71#71

[Calpernia]

Thanks!

[Calpernia]

>>>>What puzzles me about the Rosenberg grandchildren is that they are Jewish and as such they are in danger.

What makes you think they are 'really' Jewish? One of the ways they infiltrate is to pose as others with similar interests. Then they slowly introduce their own propaganda until that group is taken over.

[Calpernia]

bump

[Spirited]

Probably the best ADL members, too.

[Velveeta]

Bookmarking, thanks.

Rosenberg Fund for Children
The RFC collects more than $1.7 million dollars in grants a year.

[Calpernia]

Air America
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;s=air%20america


EcoTalk's Betsy Rosenberg

Some things just don't compute. For example, why can't those of us in the nation's most progressive media market listen to Al Franken and his friends on Air America Radio?

We're missing out ... and not just on the liberal chitchat and nonstop Bush bashing. Air America is also home to the only environmental program broadcast on commercial radio in the country. It's called EcoTalk, and it's hosted by none other than SF's Betsy Rosenberg.

Many of you may be familiar with Rosenberg through the one-minute EcoTalk (formerly TrashTalk) segments she has broadcast on KCBS radio since 1997. Rosenberg had worked as a reporter and anchor for CBS for over ten years when a light bulb (compact fluorescent, I'm sure) went off in her head.

"As a consumer of mainstream media," she told me, "I was not hearing or reading anything on a regular basis about environmental solutions." There was no shortage of "gloom and doom" stories, recalls Rosenberg, "but nothing about what individuals can do to conserve resources and live lighter on the planet."

Rosenberg approached CBS and proposed an environmental segment. Her then-news director predicted she'd run dry of material in three weeks. "Some 1,500 broadcasts later, I know I will never run out of great green stories," Rosenberg says. "I turned a personal distaste of waste into a professional passion."

While Rosenberg continues to broadcast her 60-second spots locally, she knew she could take the program further. "For years I'd felt confined by the one-minute time slot on KCBS," she confessed. "I wanted to have a longer program with a national audience." Then she heard a new "progressive" radio network was starting up. "I called Air America's program director and asked what kind of environmental programming they were planning. When I heard silence -- which I expected -- I offered my services."

The hour-long EcoTalk is now broadcast at 7 a.m. every Sunday morning. EcoTalk offers a mixture of news, commentary, green product spotlights and interviews with environmental folks such as Ted Danson and Robert Redford (and non-celebs as well). Recent stories have ranged from the Center for a New American Dream's "Turn the Tide" project to a profile of the Environmental Defense Fund.

[Velveeta]

Is she related?

[Calpernia]

I don't know. I did see the RFC.org link in a cash on the airamerica forum.

But I couldn't find another connection (yet) after I posted this.

[Sthitch]

It is interesting that I have met a number of very Jewish people who believe that the Rosenbergs were setup as some large anti-Semitic plot. The father of my high-school sweetheart was an ardent Conservative Jewish man; he swore up and down that the Rosenberg's were setup as part of some grant conspiracy. He was a senior prosecutor in the Appellate division of the Justice Department and should have known better, but his equally as ardent liberalism got in his way.
One of these days I hope to bump into him again to ask him what he thinks now. I have a feeling that his stubbornness will not cede and he will still maintain their innocence.

[oldbrowser]

"I’m personally outraged that my confidential communication with my clients may have been listened to by the U.S. government,"

I'll be personally outraged if they weren't listening to any communications between terrorists and this "domestic enemy".

[Cindy]

Thanks for the ping Calpernia.
I'm finding this interesting.

[cvq3842]

Interesting how Sam Alito is tarred with all the views (or the views, as distorted by the MSM) of a Princeton group from 20 years ago, but the Rosenberg connection is not mentioned.

Either the surveillance action is constitutional or it is not. I believe the president has the power to operate the program as I understand it.

I heard someone, somewhere (I can't remember) put forth a scenario in which al-Qaeda could circumvent the ACLU version of the rules by just sending coded messages in emails and cc'ing some domestic addreses. Spam filters would likely ensure the messages were never read by such recipients, yet they would be communications to American citizens.

Couldn't the US just get a warrant? Maybe. Maybe not. Didn't a judge refuse a warrant to search the laptop of the "20th hijacker," at least until AFTER the Twin Towers were down?

[freema]

Yep, make her pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and if she doesn't, or breaks that pledge out with her.

Commie suing a Republic. Rich.

[El Gato]

Center for Constitutional Rights Legal Director Bill Goodman portrayed the president as a man on an unprecedented power grab at the expense of basic post Watergate Ddemocratic principles.

There, now it's closer to reality.

[El Gato]

This is extremely interesting because the courts have ruled and the ACLU only gets one bite at the apple.

You don't understand the rules, theirs that is. They get as many tries as they need. Once they win one, it's holy "precedent", never to be overturned by any future case.

[El Gato]

Good Lord, they breed communists ugly these days

They always have.

But her looks are not important, if she was using her profession to support her country, instead of to betray it, she could look like Helen Thomas, and I'd still love her.