Posted on 07/06/2007 9:14:25 AM PDT by Kaslin
You have to go here to read the article
Those people the UK Terrorist Doctors called in the US should be worried, very worried!
“Bush’s domestic spying program.” More BS from the AP. It is not a domestic spying program. I dispise the msm.
Gimme a rewrite.
The commie ACLU will appeal.
“The American Civil Liberties Union led the lawsuit on behalf of other groups including lawyers, journalists and scholars it says have been handicapped in doing their jobs by the government monitoring.”
And agency analysts are handicapped in doing their jobs without it.
So what’s more important?
I did a search and could not find anything posted, and if you noticed the title in the other report is different then the USA Today title
I did look for a source. I typed in the whole title, then I typed in Court, then Court nixes and spy program and each time it came out negative. Do yuou think I would have posted the article if it had already been posted? *rme*
Why should I go to Google News for news?
"Plaintiffs here contend that the TSP has interfered with their ability to carry out their professional responsibilities in a variety of ways, including that the TSP has had a significant impact on their ability to talk with sources, locate witnesses, conduct scholarship, engage in advocacy and communicate with persons who are outside of the United States, including in the Middle East and Asia. Plaintiffs have submitted several declarations to that effect. For example, scholars and journalists such as plaintiffs Tara McKelvey, Larry Diamond, and Barnett Rubin indicate that they must conduct extensive research in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia, and must communicate with individuals abroad whom the United States government believes to be terrorist suspects or to be associated with terrorist organizations. In addition, attorneys Nancy Hollander, William Swor, Joshua Dratel, Mohammed Abdrabboh, and Nabih Ayad indicate that they must also communicate with individuals abroad whom the United States government believes to be terrorist suspects or to be associated with terrorist organizations, and must discuss confidential information over the phone and email with their international clients. All of the Plaintiffs contend that the TSP has caused clients, witnesses and sources to discontinue their communications with plaintiffs out of fear that..."
Full Decision (pdf)
Notice they concede the wiretaps were NOT of "domestic" but "international" communications. Notice also that they say their jobs depend on contacts with terrorist or associates of terrorist organizations abroad.
Yahoo!News is different and it has the author of the article
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