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[privacy] U.S. Appeals Court Grants Stay on Warrantless Spying
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 20:55:52 GMT
Via MSNBC (AP). [snip] The Bush administration can continue its warrantless surveillance program while it appeals a judge's ruling that the program is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. The president has said the program is needed in the war on terrorism; opponents say it oversteps constitutional boundaries on free speech, privacy and executive powers. U.S. Judge Anna Diggs Taylor in Detroit ruled Aug. 17 that the surveillance, which targets communications between people in this country and people overseas when a terrorist link is suspected, violates the rights to free speech and privacy, as well as the separation of powers enshrined in the Constitution. [snip] More: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15132141/ - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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