A Terrorist Win
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Posted 8/17/2006
Judiciary: Detroit Judge Anna Diggs Taylor has agreed to the American Civil Liberties Union's demands to shut down the National Security Agency's wiretapping program. Terrorists everywhere are cheering.
What could be more un-American than one powerful individual dictating that this country not use all tools at its disposal to defend itself in a war? Yet, that's exactly what U.S. District Court Judge Taylor did.
Taylor ruled Thursday the NSA violated the free speech and privacy of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Greenpeace, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) and leftist journalist Christopher Hitchens, among others.
A footnote to the ruling reveals what's really meant by "free speech" and "privacy": Nancy Hollander, a former NACDL president and anti-war activist, "stated that she frequently engages in international communications with individuals who have alleged connections with terrorist organizations."
American Prospect senior editor Tara McKelvey, who regularly accuses the White House and Pentagon of defending torture, "declared that she has international communications with sources who are suspected of helping the insurgents in Iraq."
So — leftist activists must "communicate with individuals abroad whom the U.S. government believes to be terrorist suspects or to be associated with terrorist organizations, and must discuss confidential information over the phone and e-mail with (them)," Taylor said.
In one swoop, she has thus created a constitutional right to talk to terrorists, national security be damned. Or, as Taylor said, "they want to engage in conversations with individuals abroad without fear that their First Amendment rights are being infringed upon."
As an exercise, just imagine someone defending "private" communications with, say, Joseph Goebbels in World War II.
We've documented the ACLU's Marxist origins and its animus against American democracy many times. In the 1930s, a congressional investigation found the ACLU "closely affiliated with the communist movement in the United States." Ever since, the ACLU has used its legal muscle to support our enemies abroad.
The 73-year-old Judge Taylor, appointed by Jimmy Carter in 1979, has a long history as a radical. In 1964, she helped set up a Mississippi office of the National Lawyers Guild, which Congress in 1950 called the "legal bulwark of the Communist Party."
She was married to the late Rep. Charles Diggs, D-Mich., a far-left founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus sentenced in 1978 to prison for a $66,000 payroll kickback scheme.
Congress' post-9-11 authorization to President Bush stated "that the president is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against" terrorists and those who help them. Wiretapping and computer monitoring are vital parts of this effort.
What happened Thursday was nothing less than a judicial disarmament of the U.S. — stripping away some of our most valuable weapons in the global war on terror. |
