A few of us were experimenting with keyword “tm”, adding it to FR articles which would be of interest to TMers.
Often times, threads at FR which would be pertinent to TM are missed. Plus, there’s so much news out there these days and we’re all short on time.
If you entered the TM keyword and everybody helped out, we might have a better collection of Threat Matrix related material that otherwise might be missed. Let me know what you think.
Here’s what the TM list looks like thusfar:
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/tm/index?tab=articles
I posted these threads this morning:
Glimmers of Bush: Does National Security Trump the Law?
and
Obama DOJ Defies Federal Judge ( Lawyers Refuse to Release Document in Wiretapping Case)
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Then last Friday, in a case that’s gotten far less attention, Al Haramain Islamic Foundation v. Obama, the Department of Justice filed an emergency motion in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to assert that, similarly, the Bush administration’s domestic warrantless wiretapping program is a state secret, and that to allow its victims access to information that would let them sue the government would endanger national security. Today, the appeals court denied the government’s emergency request to block release of the documents.
The case involves the Al Haramain Islamic Foundation, a Saudi Arabian charity that had an office in Ashland, Oregon until the the Treasury Department in 2004 decided it was funneling money to terrorists and shut it down.