NSA wiretapping trial begins
Christian Science Monitor
08/14/07
It’s hard — often impossible — to prove that secret government wiretapping in the name of national security is violating one’s privacy rights. The evidence itself usually is top secret. But one rather obscure case could pull back the veil on a surveillance program that’s at the heart of the US fight against terror. In the federal appeals court in San Francisco Wednesday, lawyers for a Saudi charity accused of helping Al Qaeda will argue that their clients, including two American attorneys, were illegally spied on without the required court warrant. How do they know? Treasury Department officials inadvertently provided them with National Security Agency (NSA) call logs stamped ‘top secret’...
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0814/p01s02-usju.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=National+Security+Agency
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=spying
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Saudi+charity
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=surveillance
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=warrantless
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=wiretapping
08/14/07
It’s hard — often impossible — to prove that secret government wiretapping in the name of national security is violating one’s privacy rights. The evidence itself usually is top secret. But one rather obscure case could pull back the veil on a surveillance program that’s at the heart of the US fight against terror. In the federal appeals court in San Francisco Wednesday, lawyers for a Saudi charity accused of helping Al Qaeda will argue that their clients, including two American attorneys, were illegally spied on without the required court warrant. How do they know? Treasury Department officials inadvertently provided them with National Security Agency (NSA) call logs stamped ‘top secret’...
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0814/p01s02-usju.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=National+Security+Agency
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=spying
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Saudi+charity
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=surveillance
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=warrantless
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=wiretapping
rudkla - 15. Aug, 11:10
