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To: NOW who wrote (48693)	3/26/2006 11:25:43 PM
From: mishedlo	Read Replies (1) of 116555

DOJ: NSA Can Spy on Your Lawyer AND Use It Against You by lipris Sat Mar 25, 2006 at 05:10:59 AM PDT Have they finally gone too far? Have these assholes at long last overextended their reach in the court of public opinion? This is an issue that just about everyone can easily understand and I don't think your average American will take too kindly to this. Get ready to peg your outrage meter. DOJ: NSA Could've Monitored Lawyers' Calls The National Security Agency could have legally monitored ordinarily confidential communications between doctors and patients or attorneys and their clients, the Justice Department said Friday of its controversial warrantless surveillance program. Responding to questions from Congress, the department also said that it sees no prohibition to using information collected under the NSA's program in court. --all emphasis mine Wait just a fucking minute here. Did I just read that correctly? Follow me to the flip for more... * lipris's diary :: :: * "Because collecting foreign intelligence information without a warrant does not violate the Fourth Amendment and because the Terrorist Surveillance Program is lawful, there appears to be no legal barrier against introducing this evidence in a criminal prosecution," the department said in responses to questions from lawmakers released Friday evening. -- again, all emphasis mine Whoa, whoa, whoa. Just because your bootlicking admirers on the Senate Intel Committee are looking for ways to retroactively make legal this civil liberties abomination, doesn't make it "legal". In fact, almost every constitutional scholar to look at what we know about this mess begs to differ. In an open letter to Congress on the matter, 14 prominent legal scholars found the Administration's defense of the program lacked "any plausible legal authority". So you can stuff your flat assertion that your ridiculously titled "Terrorist Surveillance Program" has been deemed "legal" by anyone. And now you not only are want to spy on the privileged communications between lawyers and their clients and doctors and their patients in a blatantly illegal manner, but you feel you can introduce whatever info you obtained illegally in a court of law? Are you fucking high? ..... dailykos.com

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