Posted on 11/20/2006 7:03:16 PM PST by tobyhill
WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency is not required to release details about its secret wiretapping program, a federal judge said Monday.
The People for the American Way Foundation, a liberal advocacy group, sued to obtain records under the Freedom of Information Act. The group sought to find out how many wiretaps were approved and who reviewed the program.
President Bush has acknowledged the existence of the program, which he calls the Terrorist Surveillance Program. The National Security Agency monitors phone calls and e-mails between people in the U.S. and people in other countries when a link to terrorism is suspected.
Civil liberties group criticize it as an expansion of presidential power, and a federal judge has said it is unconstitutional. The Justice Department says it is a necessary tool to fight
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Finally, a judge who doesn't support the enemy.
WOW....that is a shock.
Good judge...we need to find out who nominated her.
Ellen Segal Huvelle
Suck on a lemon libs.
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OOPSY....Hillary isn't going to like that.
Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle was appointed to the United States District Court in October 1999. She received a B.A. from Wellesley College in 1970, a Masters in City Planning from Yale University in 1972, and a J.D. from Boston College Law School in 1975. Following law school, she served as law clerk to Chief Justice Edward F. Hennessey of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. From 1976 until 1984, Judge Huvelle was an associate at the firm of Williams & Connolly and in 1984, she became a partner at that firm. She was appointed Associate Judge of the D.C. Superior Court in September 1990 and served in the Civil, Criminal and Family Divisions until her appointment to the federal bench. Judge Huvelle has been a Fellow of the American Bar Association, a member of the Edward Bennett Williams Inn of Court, and has taught trial practice at Harvard Law School’s Trial Advocacy Workshop and at the University of Virginia School of Law.
A Clinton mistake - ha ha ha.
PFAW=George Soros, who is also a major funder of the ACLU.
a Clinton appointee.
I guess she didn't get the memo.
LOL! It looks like slick Willie might have done something right.
The People for the American Way Foundation = Commie Bastards.
Is it possible that this is the begining of America getting serious on the War On Terror... I will withold judgement for now but good step.
not the american left.
there is a long way to go in this case.
Well, yeah, that's the facts, but dems don't really care about facts- this lawsuit should have never even made it into courts in the first place because of the frivilousness of it. The lawyers knew it stood no chance because of exactly what you pointed out- there was no way of knowing if the law was broken & the factr that the info is of such sensitive nature that it couldn't be made public without risking public safety.- that didn't stop the dems though- they went right agead with it. I'm just afraid a liberal judge like the one woman that ruled in the dems favor in the first place over wiretaps, will sadly prevail. Just nervousness on my part I guess- too skeptical I guess.
This judge made the best ruling possible, classified means classified and no matter what people think about the legality of the circumstances it's still classified and they don't have a right to know the details.
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