long story short, the supremes have refused to hear the ACLU’s challenge to the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping, without comment.
the importance of this decision, which puts an end to the legal challenge, in relation to the FISA statute, especially the teleCON immunity provision, is smartly summed up by Glenn Greenwald:
… This decision does mean, however, that EFF’s pending lawsuits in San Francisco against AT&T, Verizon and the other telecoms are now the sole remaining vehicle for finding out what the Bush administration actually did when spying on Americans for years without warrants, and as importantly, is the last hope for obtaining a judicial ruling as to whether the President broke the law and violated the Constitution when doing so. If Jay Rockefeller and Dick Cheney have their way and retroactive amnesty is granted to these telecoms, those lawsuits will be forever dismissed and Americans will remain indefinitely in the dark about how our own Government spied on us, and will forever lose the opportunity to have a court rule whether the Government broke the law and violated our Constitutional rights…
the house will be back in session next week, and the full court media onslaught is already underway.
chimpy, from his saturday radio address, leading the way:
“At this moment, somewhere in the world, terrorists are planning a new attack on America.”
contact your Representative… Senator…Speaker Pelosi…and Majority Leader Reid
NO WARRANTLESS WIRETAPPING
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