Posted on 08/17/2006 9:25:06 AM PDT by slowhand520
Judge Nixes Warrantless Surveillance
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Aug 17, 12:10 PM (ET)
By SARAH KARUSH
DETROIT (AP) - A federal judge ruled Thursday that the government's warrantless wiretapping program is unconstitutional and ordered an immediate halt to it.
U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor in Detroit became the first judge to strike down the National Security Agency's program, which she says violates the rights to free speech and privacy.
The American Civil Liberties Union filed the lawsuit on behalf of journalists, scholars and lawyers who say the program has made it difficult for them to do their jobs. They believe many of their overseas contacts are likely targets of the program, which involves secretly taping conversations between people in the U.S. and people in other countries.
The government argued that the program is well within the president's authority, but said proving that would require revealing state secrets.
The ACLU said the state-secrets argument was irrelevant because the Bush administration already had publicly revealed enough information about the program for Taylor to rule
To segregate and then victimize its members.
Judger TaylorTraitor
That's lame. The administration already wrote up a great Constitutional case (no secrets needed at all) a few years ago. Not using that tells me that the government didn't care if they won or lost this case.
She is a District judge, not the high Supreme Judge of all the USA. She has no authority in this case.
Ignore this creature.
Wonderful.
U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor in Detroit became the first judge to strike down the National Security Agency's program, which she says violates the rights to free speech and privacy. "
Liberal, black, Carter appointee, and senile (75 years old), Class of '54.
"Anna Diggs Taylor
In 1979, Anna Diggs Taylor became the first black woman judge to be appointed to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan."
I question the timing...
Here is the clip of Jennings and Wallace and what they would do (or NOT do) if they had foreknowledge of an ambush on US troops...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGg_dpGhlf0
There can be no doubt that she is a conscious agent of AlQaida.
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