ILLEGAL BEYOND THE BOUNDS OF EVEN THE PATRIOT ACT – ILLEGAL – UNCONSTITUTIONAL – ONGOING SINCE 2002 = NEW YORK TIMES
The White House asked The New York Times not to publish this article, arguing that it could jeopardize continuing investigations and alert would-be terrorists that they might be under scrutiny. After meeting with senior administration officials to hear their concerns, the newspaper delayed publication for a year to conduct additional reporting. Some information that administration officials argued could be useful to terrorists has been omitted.
PREDICTION: THE LIST OF THOSE ILLEGALLY SURVEILLED WILL INCLUDE MEMBERS OF THE MEDIA AND BUSH’S POLITICAL ENEMIES
UPDATE: The Bush Administration has officially declared itself beyond the law:
The next year, Justice Department lawyers disclosed their thinking on the issue of warrantless wiretaps in national security cases in a little-noticed brief in an unrelated court case. In that 2002 brief, the government said that “the Constitution vests in the President inherent authority to conduct warrantless intelligence surveillance (electronic or otherwise) of foreign powers or their agents, and Congress cannot by statute extinguish that constitutional authority.”
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