ACLU Strikes again
Well, the American Communist Liberties Union has managed to strike again. Judge Rules Terrorist Surveillance Program Unconstitutional.
Judge Anna Diggs Taylor has struck down the NSA wiretapping program. The ACLU and CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations) jointly brought to suit to the Jimmy Carter appointed judge.
I will admit, When this came out, I was initially against it. But I changed my position when I learned that ALL of the former judges of the FISA program all testified before Congress and said that what President Bush is doing is within the law.
I now believe this is a essential piece of the war on terror. I believe that this program was part of the uncovering of the liquid bombers plot. We'll never know because to tell that would reveal intelligence gathering methods that the terrorists would then circumvent.
To reiterate, this program is about international calls from known terrorist phones made to calls within the United States. It is international spying, not domestic. Besides, no one made a peep when Clinton had the Echelon program, spying on his enemies in the US phone calls using this program.