The ACLU is joining the appeal of a man convicted for seeking to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge who wants his conviction overturned because he was “illegally” spied on by NSA.
Back in December, Iyman Faris, the only named American target of the National Security Agency’s secret warrantless wiretap program announced his consideration of a lawsuit against the president of the United States. To accomplish this goal, his lawyer David Smith issued an all points bulletin for civil liberties attorneys and constitutional scholars interested in taking up his client’s case.
“There has to be a real plaintiff with a real injury,” explained Barry Steinhardt, director of the ACLU’s Technology and Liberty program, one of many civil libertarians who
Despite Faris’ admitted guilt, . . . were chomping at the bit to get him off the hook,
says StopTheACLU.com. What did the man say about liberalism? Yes, James Burnham: “Liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide.” I think of Chill Wills riding the a-bomb with a cowboy whoop in “Dr. Strangelove.” That’s ACLU riding its ideology.
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The ACLU is joining the appeal of a man convicted for seeking to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge who wants his conviction overturned because he was “illegally” spied on by NSA.
Back in December, Iyman Faris, the only named American target of the National Security Agency’s secret warrantless wiretap program announced his consideration of a lawsuit against the president of the United States. To accomplish this goal, his lawyer David Smith issued an all points bulletin for civil liberties attorneys and constitutional scholars interested in taking up his client’s case.
“There has to be a real plaintiff with a real injury,” explained Barry Steinhardt, director of the ACLU’s Technology and Liberty program, one of many civil libertarians who
Despite Faris’ admitted guilt, . . . were chomping at the bit to get him off the hook,
says StopTheACLU.com. What did the man say about liberalism? Yes, James Burnham: “Liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide.” I think of Chill Wills riding the a-bomb with a cowboy whoop in “Dr. Strangelove.” That’s ACLU riding its ideology.
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What do we think of this kind of talk?
[Prominent public figure] delivered a blistering partisan speech at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina last night, equating the Republican Party with the Nazi Party and characterizing Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her predecessor, Colin Powell, as “tokens.”
“The Republican Party would have the American flag and the swastika flying side by side,” he charged.
Calling President Bush a liar, [he] told the audience at the historically black institution that this White House’s lies are more serious than the lies of his predecessor’s because Clinton’s lies didn’t kill people. . . .
He referred to former Attorney General John Ashcroft as J. Edgar Ashcroft. He compared Bush’s judicial nominees to the Taliban.
Pretty extreme, huh? Worthy of slapping into a newspaper, right? Not necessarily. That was Civil rights activist and NAACP Chairman Julian Bond speaking, and the coverage is in World Net Daily, an Internet publication. Where else? Not in Chi Trib or Sun-Times or in any other MSM outlet, unless you count Fayetteville’s News 14 TV show.
James Taranto calls it “whitewashing a black leader” and likens it to coverage of the late Yasser Arafat,
talking peace in English while inciting hatred in Arabic–except that in this case Bond is speaking a language everyone understands, and reporters, whose job is to report the facts, are instead concealing them. [Italics added] Bond’s mostly black audience at Fayetteville hears his message of division and resentment, while the broader public is told that he has a “positive attitude” and is engaged in a “fight for equal rights.”
Let’s hear it for freedom of the press.
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What do we think of this kind of talk?
[Prominent public figure] delivered a blistering partisan speech at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina last night, equating the Republican Party with the Nazi Party and characterizing Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her predecessor, Colin Powell, as “tokens.”
“The Republican Party would have the American flag and the swastika flying side by side,” he charged.
Calling President Bush a liar, [he] told the audience at the historically black institution that this White House’s lies are more serious than the lies of his predecessor’s because Clinton’s lies didn’t kill people. . . .
He referred to former Attorney General John Ashcroft as J. Edgar Ashcroft. He compared Bush’s judicial nominees to the Taliban.
Pretty extreme, huh? Worthy of slapping into a newspaper, right? Not necessarily. That was Civil rights activist and NAACP Chairman Julian Bond speaking, and the coverage is in World Net Daily, an Internet publication. Where else? Not in Chi Trib or Sun-Times or in any other MSM outlet, unless you count Fayetteville’s News 14 TV show.
James Taranto calls it “whitewashing a black leader” and likens it to coverage of the late Yasser Arafat,
talking peace in English while inciting hatred in Arabic–except that in this case Bond is speaking a language everyone understands, and reporters, whose job is to report the facts, are instead concealing them. [Italics added] Bond’s mostly black audience at Fayetteville hears his message of division and resentment, while the broader public is told that he has a “positive attitude” and is engaged in a “fight for equal rights.”
Let’s hear it for freedom of the press.
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Jesse White, he’s a Democrat, right? Running again? Let’s keep watch.
The former director of Secretary of State Jesse White’s physical services division and three janitors were charged Friday with scheming to let the janitors collect full pay– more than $150,000 in all– for only minimal work.
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Jesse White, he’s a Democrat, right? Running again? Let’s keep watch.
The former director of Secretary of State Jesse White’s physical services division and three janitors were charged Friday with scheming to let the janitors collect full pay– more than $150,000 in all– for only minimal work.
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West Virignia Senator Jay Rockefeller is the leaker who illegally supplied the New York Times with the details of the NSA program
Jed Babbin of The American Spectator said on a radio show yesterday, reports Hugh Hewitt, via Instapundit. It’s the blogosphere at work, as it was in the Dan Rather, Trent Lott, and other affairs.
Given that the CIA’s Porter J. Goss stated emphatically that the leak had done very serious damage to the United States, if Rockefeller is a suspect, he should be hauled before a Grand Jury asap
continues Hewitt.
Meanwhile, Chi Trib’s Mark Silva had something cute but inconsequential yesterday about Bush saying “good” too often. It’s the G-word, says a head. Silva is resting up for a shot at Jay Rockefeller, I bet.
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West Virignia Senator Jay Rockefeller is the leaker who illegally supplied the New York Times with the details of the NSA program
Jed Babbin of The American Spectator said on a radio show yesterday, reports Hugh Hewitt, via Instapundit. It’s the blogosphere at work, as it was in the Dan Rather, Trent Lott, and other affairs.
Given that the CIA’s Porter J. Goss stated emphatically that the leak had done very serious damage to the United States, if Rockefeller is a suspect, he should be hauled before a Grand Jury asap
continues Hewitt.
Meanwhile, Chi Trib’s Mark Silva had something cute but inconsequential yesterday about Bush saying “good” too often. It’s the G-word, says a head. Silva is resting up for a shot at Jay Rockefeller, I bet.
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