Return to Article: Appeals court vacates wiretapping ruling
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The fact that the court ruled that the plaintiffs had no standing does not necessarily prove that the program is not going after the general public. The court's decision makes clear that the "State Secrets Doctrine" prevented disclosure of any evidence that the plaintiffs could have used to prove their case. Without disclosure of evidence one way or the other, all we have to go on is what the NSA tells us. In other words, we are asked to have faith that the program is being used for its publicly-stated purposes. To a growing number of Americans, and especially in view of the Patriot Act and the Military Commissions Act, this issue boils down to a question of "how much faith can we afford?"
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This article states, "A federal appeals court on Friday dealt a blow to civil libertarians who challenged the Bush administration's controversial domestic spying program."
It is a Terrorist Surveillance Program, monitoring phone numbers that were discovered on known terrorist cell phones and computers confiscated on the battle field, in raids on the enemy, and arrests of terrorist all over the world. Not a program that monitors the general populace.
U.S. Circuit Judges Alice Batchelder and Julia Smith Gibbons ruled against a group of lawyers, journalists and scholars led by the American Civil Liberties Union who believed they had been spied on. The judges ruled the plaintiffs lacked standing for their claims which proves the program is not going after the general public as no evidence was presented showing this. The case shows that law enforcement officials are monitoring the calls to phone numbers in the United States that were on terrorist phones and computers. This is exactly what we want to occur to stop terrorist attacks in the USA.
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Those who voted for the Patriote act are the ones to be blamed. Truman lost me a GI and a life long democrat by firing Mc Arthur. Bush lost a Republican by being a traitor to the U.S. Constitution
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