[Enchante]

Liberal Carter appointee wants to open the door to more 9/11s, courtesy of the ACLU.

[AmericaUnited]

Pathetic little twerp judge that will get overruled faster than you can say 'speeding bullet'.

[Peach]

What unmitigated BS.

But it was okay that Clinton ran the Eschelon program which listened to phone calls and read e-mails.

[TimesDomain]

I have two short words for her and her master from georgia F.U.

Read my Tag Line

[dighton]

How would the NSA come under her jurisdiction?

[1066AD]

I thought the program was about matching phone numbers/calling patterns and only went to actual listening after warrants to do so were authorized under usual laws.

In fact I read somewhere that the numbers being compared by NSA were themselves coded and that it took a warrant to get the actual phone numbers from the phone companies. Did I get it all wrong ?

(Oh, and let's not forget it was intercepted comms that led to the discovery of the UK bomb plots last week.)

[RexBeach]

Which circuit will hear the appeal?

Thanks, Jimmah, by the way, for keeping us safe.

Putz.

[traditional1]

"lawsuit on behalf of journalists, scholars and lawyers who say the program has made it difficult for them to do their jobs. "

Just doing the job most Americans won't do? Like spilling intelligence secrets to Bash Bush? Like giving aid and comfort to the enemy in time of War?

Exactly what "public interest" is served by protecting leakers and disclosing secret intelligence info?

[agooga]

Said it before-- lousy liberals say WOT is "law-enforcement" problem, but don't want to give law-enforcement the most basic tools to do the job.

They're hopeless.

[MizSterious]

I was thinking Clinton appointee, but Carter appointee may be even worse.

[Abathar]

Biography

Prior to her appointment to the Federal Court in 1979, Judge Taylor was a private practitioner, a legislative assistant, an Assistant Wayne County Prosecutor, an Assistant United States Attorney, an Adjunct Professor of Law at Wayne State Law School, and an Assistant Corporation Counselor, City of Detroit. She is a 1950 Graduate of the Northfield School for Girls, East Northfield, Massachusetts, and received her B.A. from Barnard College in 1954 and L.L.B. from Yale Law School in 1957. Judge Taylor was appointed to the bench on November 2, 1979.

She is a Trustee of the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Community Foundation for Southeastern Michigan and the Henry Ford Health System.

She is a member of the State Bar (Committees on Character and Fitness and on U.S. Courts), Federal Bar, Wolverine Bar, Black Judges Association and Women Judges Association.

[Eva]

Yes, of course it is unconstitutional to spy on the terrorists. We violated their freedom to blow up planes over the Atlantic and kill a couple of thousand people. Whatever was Bush thinking?

[twntaipan]

Another example of how the Democrats will keep us safe?

Democrats and their appointees do everything they can to enable Muslim terrorists to kill as many Americans as possible.

[Williams]

It appears the government argued it could not reveal details of the program because that would endanger national security. Rather than first rule on that, sounds like the judge then accepted the plaintiffs' version of the facts and ruled on the whole case. That strikes me as an extremely injudicious course of action.

[mrsmith]

These senior judges are a poor lot IMO.
Several times they seem to be making absurd decisions based only on their prejudices and desires.
IOW: they just don't care how their work is viewed.

Justice is too important for frivolous judges.

[IamConservative]

U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor in Detroit became the first judge to strike down the National Security Agency's program

"first judge to strike down" - Something that would put a smile on any tyrants face I would think.

[BW2221]

Jimmy Carter - the gift that keeps on giving./sarc.

[M1Tanker]

Amazing that the left had no issues with Clinton's very broad-spectrum, fuzzy focused, "echelon" program that would intercept millions of emails and phone calls from everyone as it looked for "key words".

President Bush's program is limited to known IP addresses and cell numbers taken from the terrorists.

All Clinton had to do was change key words from "bomb" and "osama" to "republican" and "conservative" and he would track political opponents (Filegate anyone?). Bush's program only goes after IP addresses found on computers taken from the terrorists. If a terrorists visits websites from his "safe house" in Iraq, I think we should know what he was doing. We use the exact same procedures for fighting drug lords and pedophile rings. Yet somehow what Bush is doing is wrong, but what Clinton did is ok?

The idiocy of the left never ceases to amaze me.

[Yankee]

another gift from the dickless wonder from Georgia

[Mad Dawgg]

"Liberal Carter appointee wants to open the door to more 9/11s, courtesy of the ACLU."

Not sure how the timetables work on appeals but I would but a sizable sum that any appeals will not happen till after November.

Master stroke on political manuevers by the libtards.

[ThePythonicCow]

U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor