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4 edits | RE: Court Says President Bush Violated Wiretapping Laws Sorry, but Bush isn't the defendant here. Obama and his minions are:
»www.wired.com/images_blogs/threa···lker.pdf
BARACK H OBAMA, President of the United States; NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY and KEITH B ALEXANDER, its Director; OFFICE OF FOREIGN ASSETS CONTROL, an office of the United States Treasury, and ADAM SZUBIN, its Director; FEDERAL
BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION and ROBERT S MUELLER III, its Director, in his official and personal capacities, Defendants.
President Barack H Obama is now substituted for former President George W Bush because a suit against a government official in his or her official capacity is deemed to be against the current holder of the office.
But seriously, I don't think Obama has to worry. The court making this ruling is overturned on cases like this more often than not.
And, of course, the judge seems unconcerned that this organization was a proven terrorist front organization embargoed worldwide by the UN. »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Haramain_Foundation What a nerve the US had for spying on terrorists.
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| The Government finally screwed up, and finally this warrantless wiretapping stuff may actually be put to bed.
"This created a ridiculous Catch-22 situation. As long as the government hid its illegal activities and never said who it spied on, it could spy on anyone illegally. No one could bring a lawsuit, since there was no proof that they had been impacted by the illegal spying.
Then the feds screwed up. They accidentally sent the evidence of wiretapping some lawyers for the Al-Haramain group to those lawyers. Suddenly there was evidence. But, of course, the government tried to cover it up. For a while it claimed that even though it had revealed that it had illegally spied on these lawyers, and everyone knew it, since those documents were classified, everyone had to pretend that it was still a secret and no one knew about it. This resulted in a series of positively ridiculous hoops that lawyers had to jump through to bring the case, without actually using the document. It's not about the Al-Haramain_Foundation itself. It's just of course, they're the ones the Government screwed up and sent the evidence to.
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