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Judge Nixes NSA Wire Taps
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=2325189 ^ | Aug 17 2006

Posted on 08/17/2006 10:52:46 AM PDT by Tzimisce

DETROIT Aug 17, 2006 (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 as well as the separation of powers enshrined in the Constitution.

"Plaintiffs have prevailed, and the public interest is clear, in this matter. It is the upholding of our Constitution," Taylor wrote in her 43-page opinion.

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 listening to conversations between people in the U.S. and people in other countries.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aclu; annadiggstaylor; nsa; ruling; spying
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Thoughts?
1 posted on 08/17/2006 10:52:47 AM PDT by Tzimisce
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To: Tzimisce

The judge agrees with the ACLU in wanting us all dead.


2 posted on 08/17/2006 10:55:27 AM PDT by Argus
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To: Tzimisce
My thoughts? Ok. An idiot judge is easy to find.

Wonder how much shopping the ACLU did to find this one?

3 posted on 08/17/2006 10:56:08 AM PDT by spankalib
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Thoughts?

Does this mean the government system that tracks my every financial transaction, and compels me to testify to such details, is also unconstitutional? Bye bye IRS?

4 posted on 08/17/2006 10:57:25 AM PDT by Fudd
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To: spankalib
Wonder how much shopping the ACLU did to find this one?

They just scanned their membership list.

5 posted on 08/17/2006 10:58:52 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Peace begins in the womb.)
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To: Tzimisce

Since the judge's district is Detroit, don't do any wiretapping from Detroit. Do it from Fort Meade, where it's supposed to be done.

Or ignore the judge.

Seriously: start spending some serious resources out counterintelligence to find the traitors who are leaking this classified information, give them a fair trial, and have them shot (after conviction).


6 posted on 08/17/2006 11:00:27 AM PDT by markomalley (Vivat Iesus!)
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To: Tzimisce
Response to a previous post about this. I thought this was pertinent.

But even if Taylor harpoons the spying program, experts said, the decision likely would be overturned by the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals. "Given the composition of the 6th Circuit and its previous rulings in related areas, it seems more likely to favor national security over civil liberties if that issue is squarely presented," said Carl Tobias, a law professor at the University of Richmond in Virginia. "And that's what this case is all about."

7 posted on 08/17/2006 11:01:54 AM PDT by BigFinn
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I've noticed in surfing, that most of the headlines say "Judge Nixes NSA Wiretaps", NOT "Judge Nixes "Warrantless NSA" Wire Taps."

Says a lot about the DBM, doesn't it? Mustn't let the sheeple get the wrong idea.

8 posted on 08/17/2006 11:03:29 AM PDT by greyfoxx39 (Will someone PLEASE put a sock in Bill Richardson's flappin' pie hole???)
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To: Tzimisce
Anna Diggs Taylor:


9 posted on 08/17/2006 11:03:41 AM PDT by capt. norm (Bumper Sticker: Honk if you've never seen an Uzi shoot from a car window.)
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Are you sure that isn't Hillary in glasses and a dark wig?


10 posted on 08/17/2006 11:04:52 AM PDT by greyfoxx39 (Will someone PLEASE put a sock in Bill Richardson's flappin' pie hole???)
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any additional info on when appointed, etc???


11 posted on 08/17/2006 11:05:00 AM PDT by God luvs America (When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
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To: God luvs America

A Jimmuh Carter appointee, 1979.


12 posted on 08/17/2006 11:09:55 AM PDT by greyfoxx39 (Will someone PLEASE put a sock in Bill Richardson's flappin' pie hole???)
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To: God luvs America

As Rush just covered, this is also the judge who attempted to hijack the UM Law School affirmative action case and join it in class action to the undergraduate case. Fortunately, the actual judge in the case was able to checkmate her on this.


13 posted on 08/17/2006 11:13:34 AM PDT by BelegStrongbow (www.stjosephssanford.org)
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To: greyfoxx39

Yes.
Impeach the judge. No court on the planet has the authority to stop us from intercepting international email/phone calls.
But Bush/Congressional Repubs lacks the balls to do that.

Call together the ACLU membership and shoot them for treason.
Wait, we can't do that, heck, taxpayers PAY them to use the courts to destroy the country!!

Of course, the GOP could use this to make every anti-war Democrat look like a complete fool, with what just happened in England. But don't expect it, the GOP seems to lack the balls to do something like that. I bet right now some scumbag Repub is meeting with a scumbag Dem to discuss how this ruling "shouldn't be politicized".

Liberal judges are the tools of tyrants, the Democratic party are the tyrants, the MSM are the agitators for the tyrants, and yellow bellied and opportunistic Republicans are their lapdogs (all the while pretending to be the guard dogs of the Republic).

Where are the true, couragious conservatives? Oh yeah, they are so slandered and hammered by our press that they cannot get elected.


14 posted on 08/17/2006 11:13:51 AM PDT by Idaho Whacko
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To: God luvs America

She was appointed in 1979, so it would have had to have been Carter.


15 posted on 08/17/2006 11:13:58 AM PDT by capt. norm (Bumper Sticker: Honk if you've never seen an Uzi shoot from a car window.)
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Not to be terribly racist or sexist, but who would have guessed that the traitor in question would be a 2-fer on the affermative action scale?


16 posted on 08/17/2006 11:15:11 AM PDT by Idaho Whacko
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To: Tzimisce
It's a hard one to call - the media makes this out to be a spy program on Americans, but the targets were overseas (which the NSA has probably been scanning for decades).

My concern about a lot of this type of stuff, is a liberal getting in the White House and expanding this or that anti-terrorist measure just a little more, to the point where they begin to listen in on calls that originate and terminate within the physical borders of the US, without warranties - i.e., you, me, and everybody else.
17 posted on 08/17/2006 11:19:46 AM PDT by af_vet_rr
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To: Tzimisce

I don't care anymore. Let tens of thousands of us die in American cities before the inevitable move must be made.


18 posted on 08/17/2006 11:21:15 AM PDT by Solamente (Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out...)
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To: greyfoxx39

Jimmy Carter? ACLU? The AP and Reuters must be tied into this? LOL!


19 posted on 08/17/2006 11:22:18 AM PDT by divine_moment_of_facts ("Liberals see what they believe... Conservatives believe what they see")
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Is Diggs a member of the ACLU?


20 posted on 08/17/2006 11:24:31 AM PDT by genew (Fact: Political correctness is a deadly social disease.)
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