Department of Justice concedes it can begin to release internal warrantles

[sabra]

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20060213/index.htm

Department of Justice concedes it can begin to release
internal warrantless surveillance records on March 3


Washington, D.C., February 13, 2006 - Under pressure from a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, the Justice Department on February 10 conceded in federal court that it could begin releasing as early as March 3 the internal legal memos relied on by the Bush administration in setting up the controversial National Security Agency warrantless wiretapping program.

The National Security Archive, along with the American Civil Liberties Union ("ACLU"), this week joined the Electronic Privacy Information Center in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Department of Justice seeking to compel the immediate disclosure of the internal legal justifications for the surveillance program. The filing this week by the Archive and the ACLU was consolidated with a suit filed on January 19, 2006, by the Electronic Privacy Information Center ("EPIC") that requested the federal court in Washington to issue a preliminary injunction requiring the release of relevant documents within 20 days-which Judge Henry H. Kennedy, Jr. considered at a formal hearing today.

The response of the news media to the revelation that the National Security Agency ("NSA") has engaged in warrantless domestic surveillance was immediate and dramatic, as was the response of Congress which just this week held the first hearing examining the legality of the program. News reporting and Administration statements over the last six weeks have disclosed that NSA began warrantless eavesdropping prior to receiving formal approval from President Bush; that the operation involves cooperation from American telecommunication companies, which allowed the agency to tap "directly into some of the American telecommunication system's main arteries"; that the information gathered was turned over to other agencies, including the Defense Intelligence Agency; and that some purely domestic communications (which both originated and terminated in the United States) were accidentally intercepted.

The Archive's General Counsel Meredith Fuchs commented, "There are real secrets and convenient secrets. It may be convenient for the NSA to run this program in secret, but that policy debate, and consideration of the legality of the program, should be open."

[stop the bleeding]

1. this should be interesting n/t

[sabra]

2. wonder what distraction BushCo will have for us on March 3?

[Toucano]

3. White House will announce Jenna is knocked up. n/t

[sabra]

4. that works :-)

[stop the bleeding]

6. can't - goes against the morals they claimed victory on in 2004, it

will have to be something else.

[jsamuel]

8. So what, freepers will just take it as a compliment, "She's fertile"

[stop the bleeding]

11. sad thing is there is alot of truth to that n/t

[Toucano]

12. Au contraire!

There's nothing that crowd loves more than a repentant sinner!

This will set her up to be transformed by the love of Jesus.


Besides, they would never blame W for the sinful actions of a woman. They'll say, "Jezebel had a good father, too!"

;)

[formercia]

7. So that's why fearless leader has been arguing against

animal-human hybrids....

[AnneD]

14. We'll hear another...

fake OBL tape. Or maybe they could combine the 2, Jenna knocked up and OBL is main suspect.

[sabra]

17. and must wiretap Dems to find the evil doer!

[Roland99]

5. Takes that long to redact everything but the "the's, and's, wherefore's"

[superconnected]

9. Yea! the craps getting thicker for them to wade through.

Their greatest fear - getting caught.

They have so much crap on them, they can't not get caught.

[sattahipdeep]

10. Formal.........what about informal

Accidentally :eyes:

[Supersedeas]

16. kind of like he said it was Okay to violate the law and Constitution

[lovuian]

13. NSA is definitely being made to look like it went rogue

I hope those who work on that project know they are possible
criminals since they violated the laws

accidentally doesn't count in legalities...

[Vidar]

15. This will be as credible as Project Blue Book.