Christy Hardin Smith reports on SCOTUS' rejection of a warrantless wiretapping challenge. You can read it all here. She notes the following:This decision does not, however, negate the pending case(s) in San Francisco in which the EFF and ACLU, among others, represent the interests of plaintiffs who discovered their phones had been monitored through whistleblower information that the government inadvertently produced in discovery -- those cases are ongoing.Glenn Greenwald's comments on this topic are here.
McJoan reports on it here.
The House of Representatives is resisting potential pressure from the White House.
--the BB
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Thanks very much for the update.
Heard the quick version on the radio in the car earlier. Going to read all your links now... Still giving some of my money to the ACLU... Godde bless 'em...
Says Greenwald: Don't these facts just speak volumes for themselves? Imagine if, say, Vladimir Putin was accused by his own top officials of systematically spying on Russian citizens for years in ways that were patently illegal, but he then manipulated the courts to ensure he was never accountable, and had his political allies in parliament block any investigations, so that the activities remained concealed forever and he was never made to answer for what he did. Think about the grave denunciations that Fred Hiatt, Charles Krauthammer and the State Department would be issuing over such authoritarian and lawless maneuvering.
Oh, my. Ohmyohmyohmy.
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