April 30, 2009
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Great Political Cartoons by Rob Tornoe here:Obama and his Justice Department are defending the Bush Administration’s warrantless wiretapping of American citizens.
During Obama's presidential run, he argued strongly against the Bush Administration's use of executive authority, including its warrantless wiretapping of American citizens.
President Obama's Justice Department is defending Bush officials from lawsuits pertaining to National Security Agency (NSA) domestic spying, and they are seeking to expand the government's authority using the State's Secrets Privilege, the Executive Branch's standard go-to move to protect classified information, to make them immune from any legal challenge regarding wiretapping ever.
In the new case, Jewel v. NSA, five plaintiffs contest that AT&T illegally transmitted information about their phone habits to the NSA.
The Attorney General and the Justice Department argue to dismiss the case and ask that the same standards should apply for the TSP, the first Bush terrorist surveillance program. They state they will not release information about compliance of tele-communication companies, such as ATT&T because it would cause "exceptional harm to national security."
Unless the government releases any public information about an American that it has obtained by spying on him or her, he or she cannot sue it and will never be able to dispute it.
Do we really have as many rights are we think?
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