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To: NOW who wrote (59963)	5/1/2006 1:40:21 AM
From: RJA_	Respond to of 110194

>>this satire makes light of egregious behaviour however. in so doing it risks making this all just a weal laugh. perhaps that is ok, perhaps not. Sometimes satire and ridicule are all you have got. Here is some good news: This makes interesting listening on C-Span.org. Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) on NSA Wiretapping Program Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) holds a press conference on possible legislation to withhold funding from the Administration's NSA wiretapping program. 4/27/2006: WASHINGTON, DC: 30 min. Some excerpts from Specters press conference: "The effort by the administration to justify the electronic surveillance under the resolution authorizing the use of force which was passed on September 14th 2001 is totally without merrit." "The President does not have a blank check." "In the hearings we had the issue was raised by Dean Cole of the Yale Law School, 'Whats the use of passing another statute, the President wont pay any attention to it' which ah has some validity. When you talk about withholding funds, there you are talking about real authority." Now some bad news: nytimes.com U.S. Steps Into Wiretap Suit Against AT&T By JOHN MARKOFF SAN FRANCISCO, April 28 — The government asked a federal judge here Friday to dismiss a civil liberties lawsuit against the AT&T Corporation because of a possibility that military and state secrets would otherwise be disclosed. The lawsuit, accusing the company of illegally collaborating with the National Security Agency in a vast surveillance program, was filed in February by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a civil liberties group. For the complete article, see the link above.