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more on AP Story Justice Dept. Probing Domestic Spying Leak
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 15:52:19 -0500
Begin forwarded message: From: Brock Meeks <Brock.Meeks () msnbc com> Date: December 30, 2005 2:37:08 PM EST To: dave () farber netSubject: RE: [IP] more on AP Story Justice Dept. Probing Domestic Spying Leak
President Bush has surrounded himself with "yes" men and women. Those that don't tell him what he wants to hear, such as former Treasury Secy. Paul O'Neil and former top White House economic advisor Larry "the Iraq War will cost at least $200 billion" Lindsey, are unceremoniously dumped from power positions. In order to smooth his conscious about these spying operations (and the use of torture for that matter) Bush has cobbled together a small group of lawyers willing to scratch and sniff at the margins of accepted legal doctrine in order to gin up legally defensible positions. We've already heard Bush tell the American public several times that these actions have been looked at by lawyers and even more, they are "constantly reviewed by lawyers." BAH. No offense to the legal types reading this list but having covered more than my share of court cases and talked to enough lawyers over the years, I and others here know full well that just because "a lawyer says it's 'ok'" doesn't make it so! Otherwise, we wouldn't have to have a supreme court and Microsoft would still believe it wasn't a monopoly and that the Palm OS was a threat to Windows...ahem, sorry, I got carried away... The nut here is this: the real danger in all this is that the full warp and woof of the legal system isn't being allowed to come to bear on this issue. I don't give a rat's ass if the Justice Department 'approved' this instance; that's like saying spying on Americans by the FBI was "OK" because Hoover and his lawyers approved it. -----Original Message----- From: David Farber [mailto:dave () farber net] Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 2:25 PM To: ip () v2 listbox com Subject: [IP] more on AP Story Justice Dept. Probing Domestic Spying Leak Good question djf Begin forwarded message: From: Jeff Nye <jpn () users sourceforge net> Date: December 30, 2005 2:17:27 PM EST To: dave () farber net Subject: Re: [IP] more on AP Story Justice Dept. Probing Domestic Spying Leak I can appreciate Mr. Bray's comments in the context of a legal, authorized "ongoing intelligence operation". But it is far from clear that that is what we have here. Would it make any difference if the "ongoing intelligence operation" was illegal in the first place? That is, if a crime is being committed in secret, are people not allowed to make it public? Or is DOJ approval proof enough that no crime is being committed? Jeff Nye ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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