How illegal wiretapping is really used....

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Shannon McElyea [shannonm () gmail com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 12:05 PM
To: David Farber; Dewayne Hendricks
Subject: How illegal wiretapping is really used....

 I think most people may not recall nor even know, that illegal wiretapping by the Bush administration started BEFORE 
9-11. and I think it seems quite clear now how the phone, Internet and email data was actually used "... using Internet 
search engines to look for incriminating information or evidence of possible liberal bias. ..."
and recall too, that attorneys were fired for questioning these practices.  Such as Carol Lam, the United States 
attorney in San Diego who sent an e-mail message to Mr. Elston to ask why a Stanford Law School graduate with strong 
grades had been rejected over her recommendation,  was later among the nine dismissed prosecutors.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/25/washington/25justice.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

"...

Justice Department officials illegally used “political or ideological” factors in elite recruiting programs in recent 
years, tapping law school graduates with Federalist Society membership or other conservative credentials over more 
qualified candidates with liberal-sounding résumés, an internal report found Tuesday.

<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/u/united_states_attorneys/index.html> 
<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/u/united_states_attorneys/index.html> The report, 
prepared by the Justice Department’s own inspector general and its ethics office, portrays a clumsy effort by senior 
Justice Department screeners to weed out candidates for career positions whom they considered “leftists,” using 
Internet search engines to look for incriminating information or evidence of possible liberal bias ..."
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