[Jay777]

[Jay777]

ACLU Hypocrisy Ping!

[Commander8]

So much for their obsession with privacy.

[1rudeboy]

Some caller to the Hannity show (yesterday?) observed that the ACLU searches everyone's bags entering its building. Not randomly, but universally.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

. . . and then there was the donor database the Clintons illegally used government computers for . . .

[Peach]

Democrats were okay with Eschelon and Carnivore which captured every phone call, every e-mail, every baby monitor (!), every ATM transaction and more, and that program is okay, pre war on terror, but this program isn't okay.

Eschelon and Carnivore information:

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1543118/posts?page=1#1

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1542838/posts

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1543318/posts

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=21387

Oops - Clinton's NSA spying program accidentally (ahem) captured a Republican's phone calls.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/1553101/posts?page=1

And just for kicks, the Commies insisted on FISA:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=21453

Flashback: Gore planned to bug America:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1559386/posts

NYT called domestic surveillance a necessity when Clinton was president:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1556815/posts

[HarleyLady27]

Whats the difference in having the phone companies having you phone numbers and the NSA having them????

I think people protest to much to hear their jaws clacking....

[nosofar]

There is one big difference. The ACLU is not a government agency. Even so, it does smell a bit of hypocrisy.

[SunkenCiv]

The American Civil Liberties Union is using sophisticated technology to collect a wide variety of information about its members and donors in a fund-raising effort that has ignited a bitter debate over its leaders’ commitment to privacy rights.

What a huuuuge surprise.

[George W. Bush]

It's the hypocrisy of the ACLU lecturing others on privacy and the potential for misuse of such information that is striking.

As for the substance of invading people's privacy, ACLU as a private organization here appears no different than a bazillion businesses like credit card companies, banks, local governments, Walmart, etc. The difference is that all the others don't lecture us.

[Waco]

Hillary still has 900+ FBI files too!!!