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| Permalink View Article Stats Promoted to Headline (H4) on 3/23/11: Greenwald: FISA Challenge moves Forward in Court Quicklink submitted by Josh Mitteldorf (Add your own quicklinks easily with the OpEdNews Quick Link Browser bookmark) |
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| The Federal government is tapping our phones and intercepting our emails on an enormous scale. This practice was first revealed in 2003, and the news suppressed by the NYTimes until just after the 2004 election. It upsets everyone from ACLU to the Tea Party, and incidentally it violates the Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable searches. The FISA law of 2008 authorizes this practice, and immunizes the telecom companies that cooperated with the government to provide open access to the communication network used by their customers. Candidate Obama denounced this law, but Senator Obama voted for it and President Obama is defending it in court, using the same technical reasoning as the Bush DoJ. This week, an Appellate Court in New York has ruled that constitutional challenges to the FISA law are entitled to a hearing in court. |
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