Friday, July 6, 2007

NSA Wiretap Ban Overturned...


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Earlier today the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals vacated an earlier 2006 order by a lower, Detroit court, which had found the NSA's warrantless wiretaps to be unconstitutional, violating both privacy and free speech rights.

With that decision, the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals set the post-9/11 domestic NSA wiretap program back to its dfault position.

The court ruled 2 to 1 that the Plaintiffs had no standing on which to sue, since none of those involved had been subject to the surveillance.

2 comments:

Mick Brady said...

Ya got nuttin' ta hide, ya got nuttin' ta worry about. Google and Citibank already know more about you than the CIA ever will anyway. Now let's get back to work finding those guys with the nuclear suitcase.

JMK said...

Well, it's certainly true that most of our personal information is known by many, many entities.

The thing that gets me, is that the very same people who howl over the idea of the NSA wirtapping calls from the U.S. to Afghanistan and Iraq (FISA has always allowed the tracking of calls FROM suspect foreign portals INTO the U.S.) never uttered a peep when Clinton had the NSA track (without warrant) hundreds of domestic to domestic calls between foreign nationals living in Oklahoma, in the wake of the OK City bombing, nor his violating the Posse Commitatus Act by using Army translators to decipher those intercepted calls.

A weird double standard.

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