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[QUOTE]Originally posted by bX: [QB] Just so as this doesn't get swept under the rug or anything... [QUOTE]From The [URL=http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1155937810456&call_pageid=968256290204&col=968350116795]Toronto Star[/URL] of Aug. 19, 2006 [b]Court rules Bush's wiretapping illegal[/b] In the latest judicial rebuke of the Bush administration's tactics against terrorism, a federal judge in Detroit ruled Thursday that warrantless wiretapping of U.S. citizens violates the constitution and federal law. The decision is an embarrassment for President George Bush, but it also should be a source of shame for Congress. Eight months ago, The New York Times reported that the National Security Agency was monitoring the international phone calls and email messages of some Americans without obtaining a court order as required by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Several proposals for reining in the NSA operation were offered. But none of them were enacted before members of Congress left town for the summer. Thursday's ruling by U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor should jump-start that stalled effort. It came in a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of journalists, lawyers and other scholars with business contacts in the Mideast. Her decision convincingly rebuts two of the Bush administration's legal positions: that the president has the inherent constitutional authority to engage in surveillance of Americans, and that Congress approved such eavesdropping in 2001 when it authorized Bush to use "all necessary and appropriate force" against individuals and nations implicated in the 9/11 attacks. ...[i]continues[/i][/QUOTE]and from The [URL=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/17/washington/17cnd-nsa.html?_r=1&ref=washington&oref=slogin]NY Times[/URL]. [QUOTE][b]Federal Judge Orders End to Warrantless Wiretapping[/b] By DAVID STOUT Published: August 17, 2006 WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 � A federal judge in Detroit ruled today that the Bush administration�s eavesdropping program is illegal and unconstitutional, and she ordered that it cease at once. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor found that President Bush exceeded his proper authority and that the eavesdropping without warrants violated the First and Fourth Amendment protections of free speech and privacy. �It was never the intent of the Framers to give the president such unfettered control, particularly where his actions blatantly disregard the parameters clearly enumerated in the Bill of Rights,� she wrote, in a decision that the White House and Justice Department said they would fight to overturn. A hearing will be held before Judge Taylor on Sept. 7, and her decision will not be enforced in the meantime pending the government�s appeal. The judge�s ruling is the latest chapter in the continuing debate over the proper balance between national security and personal liberty since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, which inspired the eavesdropping program and other surveillance measures that the administration says are necessary and constitutional and its critics say are intrusive. ...[/QUOTE]Also reported in [URL=http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/bal-te.nsa18aug18,0,164580.story?coll=bal-attack-headlines]The Baltimore Sun[/URL] and the [URL=http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/15303535.htm]San Jose Mercury News[/URL]... [/QB][/QUOTE]
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