Court Orders Dismissal of US Wiretapping Lawsuit

jcatcw writes with a link to a ComputerWorld article about the dismissal of a case against the NSA over the wiretapping program revealed last year. The case was brought by the ACLU. A three-judge panel in the Sixth Circuit has sent the case back down to District court for ultimate dismissal. "The appeals court decision leaves opponents of the NSA program in a difficult position, said Jim Dempsey, policy director of the Center for Democracy and Technology, a civil liberties group that has opposed the program. The appeals court ruled that the plaintiffs could not sue because they can't prove they were affected by the program, and at the same time, ruled that details about the program, including who was targeted, are state secrets."

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Bush's dad...

[iknownuttin]

appointed her to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

FTFA:

The U.S. Department of Justice, which appealed the lower court ruling on behalf of the NSA, said it was pleased with the decision. The NSA program was "a vital intelligence program that helped detect and prevent terrorist attacks," Brian Roehrkasse, the DOJ's acting director of public affairs, said in a statement.

So, Mr. Roehrkasse, do you know what freedom is?

Do you even know what the fuck your organization is even defending?

I don't know about you, but if our freedoms are being taken away by our Government, than what is there for them to defend? I guess the status quo.

I'll do my best in the coming election to vote for someone that'll take our freedoms seriously and not just use the word as justification for eliminating the Bill of Rights - like Bush does. Sorry, when that idiot in Chief goes on national TV and says he's fighting for our freedom and then allows his henchmen in the DOJ and NSA to pull this kind of shit, it's obvious to me that he and th rest of his administration has absolutely no concept of what freedom is.

Re:Checks and Balances

[Kenrod]

Every generation has their subset of whiners who think things are rapidly going down the crapper in regards to human rights.

Yet, if you actually study history, every generation has seen the quality of their human rights improve, sometimes a little bit, sometimes by leaps and bounds, as blacks did during the 60's.

We enjoy more freedoms now than ever. We enjoy more transparency in government.

If you were to show the Patriot Act to someone from a previous generation - WWII, perhaps - they would be shocked that we had to pass a special law just to do the simple things the Patriot law does. They would have assumed we were doing those things at a bare minimum. And if you told them the Patriot Act was in response to a terrorist act that killed 3000 people, they would consider you derelict in your duty to protect the homeland for doing so little.