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Judge Finds NSA Wiretapping Program Illegal
Hugh Pickens writes "The NY Times reports that a federal judge has ruled that the NSA's warrantless surveillance program was illegal, rejecting the Obama administration's effort to keep one of Bush's most disputed counterterrorism policies shrouded in secrecy. Judge Vaughn R. Walker ruled that the government had violated a 1978 federal statute requiring court approval for domestic surveillance when it intercepted phone calls of Al Haramain, a now-defunct Islamic charity in Oregon, and of two lawyers who were representing it in 2004. Declaring that the plaintiffs had been 'subjected to unlawful surveillance,' the judge said that the government was liable to pay them damages."
You people should have murdered Nixon like a dog, just like the military industrial complex killed Kennedy.
Instead, the American people set forth a precedent of getting off scott free and being pardoned by the incoming chief.
That's no disincentive to the next guy to obey the law.
If Nixon had been shot and killed while in office, and his corpse horrifically violated, then maybe (just maybe) the next guys in office wouldn't have been so cavalier about the whole thing.
Oh yeah, april fools NSA guys. I didn't mean that, obviously.