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ACLU Files Lawsuit Challenging FISA
Wired's Threat Level blog reports that the American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit contesting the constitutionality of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Recently passed by both the House and Senate, FISA was signed into law on Thursday by President Bush. The ACLU has fought aspects of FISA in the past. The new complaint (PDF) alleges the following:
"The law challenged here supplies none of the safeguards that the Constitution demands. It permits the government to monitor the communications of U.S. Citizens and residents without identifying the people to be surveilled; without specifying the facilities, places, premises, or property to be monitored; without observing meaningful limitations on the retention, analysis, and dissemination of acquired information; without obtaining individualized warrants based on criminal or foreign intelligence probable cause; and, indeed, without even making prior administrative determinations that the targets of surveillance are foreign agents or connected in any way, however tenuously, to terrorism."
you're right, i should have started saving my lobbyist bribe money at a much earlier age.
"If for any reason you're not satisfied with our service, I hate you."
Why can't we elect any of the members of the supreme court? At least give us one seat.
An Education is the Font of All Liberty
Aside from the "war de jour" (drugs, pollution, obesity, cancer, termites) what precisely are you talking about?
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
I share your contempt for ACLU pet projects like the First and Fourth Amendments.
An interesting anagram of "BANACH TARSKI" is "BANACH TARSKI BANACH TARSKI"