ACLU Accuses Department of Justice Of Stonewalling on Wiretapping Questions

Posted on March 24, 2006

The DOJ attemped to answer questions from Democrats and Republicans in Congress regarding the FISA-NSA stuff. The ACLU are visibly frustrated that their campaign against the monitoring conversations with terrorists has lost its steam. This is probably due to the fact that lawyers speaking to terrorist clients are not exempt from monitoring. Thank God for that! Perhaps the ACLU are a little paranoid?

The following can be attributed to Caroline Fredrickson, Director of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office:

“The Department of Justice continues to refuse to give honest answers to basic questions, such as how many Americans have had their phone calls and e-mails listened to or read by the NSA without a warrant. Congress and the American people are entitled to the truth. Knowing how many innocent Americans have had their privacy invaded by this lawless program is not an ‘operational’ secret–it’s the very question a less partisan and more independent Congress asked and got answered in the 1970s. That’s when Congress passed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to try to prevent warrantless spying on Americans from happening again.

“The administration continues to try to get away with stonewalling Congress and the American people. Congress should not reward presidential obstruction with legislation to whitewash this violation of the Fourth Amendment and federal law. The current era of ‘trust us, we’re the government’ must end now. Congress is obligated to investigate this illegal program further and cannot allow the Justice Department and White House to continue to suppress the facts. The law has been broken, and the people have a right to know how that happened.”

Here was the real bombshell:

“45. Are any communications between attorneys and their clients or doctors and patients being captured?

The Terrorist Surveillance Program targests communications for intercepts only when one party is outside the United States and there is probable cause to believe that at least one party is a member or agent of al Qaeda or an affiliated terrorist orginization. Although the program does not specifically target the communications of attorneys or physicians, calls involving such persons would not be categorically excluded from interception if they met these criteria.

I think we can clearly see why the ACLU are so concerned about things. Since we know the ACLU defends admitted terrorists, those that fund them, and even hire those with direct terrorist ties, its almost certain that quite a few of their phone calls were listened too. Good thing; if you ask me.

AJ Strata has an extensive breakdown of it all.
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One Response to “ACLU Accuses Department of Justice Of Stonewalling on Wiretapping Questions”

kerwin_brown on March 26th, 2006 11:11 pm

This comment is slightly off topic except if the UN is supporting terrorism.

We already accuse the ACLU of doing harm to the U.S. The ACLU is also a confessed political and cultural agent for the United Nations. They signed an agreement to that effect when they became an NGO of the UN. That action verges on the edge of treason.

If the NSA intercepted any communications that could be construed as indicating a foreign government such as the UN and the ACLU worked together to do harm to the U.S. or undermine the Constitution then it would be treason.

It is sad that the UN is not considered a terrorist organization.