Carter's Revenge: Times Trumpets Decision Striking Down Terrorist Surveillance

New York Times/NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

NY Times/NewsBusters Carter's-revenge ping to Today show list.

[beyond the sea]

We can be thankful that this decision wasn't in effect over the last several months, else we might not be talking about a 'foiled' Islamist plot to blow up multiple airliners over the Atlantic. ---

Right on!

[beyond the sea]

We can be thankful that this decision wasn't in effect over the last several months, else we might not be talking about a 'foiled' Islamist plot to blow up multiple airliners over the Atlantic. ---

Right on!

[beyond the sea]

Oops. I guess it was worth affirming twice.

;-)

[kittymyrib]

Will the country survive the Leftist judges soiling the benches of the federal judiciary, the malignant legagies of LBJ, Carter and Clinton that we are doomed to suffer for decades? The federal judiciary will be the death of the USA.

[Sgt_Schultze]

Carter's first affirmative-action appointment demonstrates exactly why she was so appointed - an allegiance to and fawning for democrat party interests first.

[Lee'sGhost]

"We can be thankful that this decision wasn't in effect over the last several months, else we might not be talking about a 'foiled' Islamist plot to blow up multiple airliners over the Atlantic."

I have seen almost nothing ab our role in this. Can anybody point me to an article?

[DCPatriot]

We can be thankful that this decision wasn't in effect over the last several months, else we might not be talking about a 'foiled' Islamist plot to blow up multiple airliners over the Atlantic.

The merits or demerits aside, I'm confused as to why you think Judge Taylor's ruling would have had any effect on the foiling of the multi-plane plot by the British?

British Intelligence (MI15) is not an oxymoron.

http://www.mi5.gov.uk/

[DCPatriot]

Wondering the same thing.

[yldstrk]

Yeah, as soon as I saw that unprofessiona irrelevant harangue in the decision, I realized it was purely political.

[kentj]

Now go easy - he is probably just upset because he pissed himself again.

Can I say that? Hope so because when it comes to the pisshead peanut farmer it's the only thing that makes any sense about him - he pissed himself again.

[nuconvert]

He's the 'gift' that keeps on giving.

[Uncle Vlad]

Great--I hope the Islamo-Nazis kill them first. See how many "civil liberties" when they're dead.

You can't protect peoples' civil liberties if you refuse to protect the people.

[Rider on the Rain]

You need to better inform yourselves.

[qlangley]

>>I'm confused as to why you think Judge Taylor's ruling would have had any effect on the foiling of the multi-plane plot by the British?

That's easy. MI5 and the CIA/NSA work very closely together, routinely sharing all information. Although such things are not confirmed officially, for obvious reasons, it has been widely reported that part of the intelligence gathering involved surveillance evidence from the US.

[Vigilanteman]

You can't protect peoples' civil liberties if you refuse to protect the people.

That would make a great tagline! This is not a victory for constitutional rights, it is a victory for CAIR, the ALCU, the Peanut Gallery and all those who would save the constitution by destroying it.

[Bahbah]

the NY Times wildly applauded the decision, calling it "good news," lauding the opinion as "careful" and "thoroughly grounded

This is completely insane. This was not a judicial opinion. It was a political screed. It had no facts and it's wrong on the law. How can the Times say such things?

[qlangley]

This is (perhaps) a little unfair to Jimmy Carter. It fails to distinguish between his malignancy and his incompetence.

Carter was very clear that the US President is empowered to engage in warrantless searches in the interests of national security. In signing FISA he made it clear that he was not ceding any Presidential authority as Commander in Chief.

None of this was even controversial prior to January 2001. So which constitutional amendment since then has changed the situation, I am not sure.