This is good news — except for the fact that people who willingly break the law, including Pres. Bush, don’t really care what judges have to say about their illegal activities:
The Justice Department said it would appeal the ruling, saying the program was “a critical tool that ensures we have in place an early warning system to detect and prevent a terrorist attack.”
In a 44-page memorandum and order, U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor, — who is based in Detroit, Michigan — struck down the National Security Agency’s program, which she said violates the rights to free speech and privacy.
The defendants “are permanently enjoined from directly or indirectly utilizing the Terrorist Surveillance Program (TSP) in any way, including, but not limited to, conducting warrantless wiretaps of telephone and Internet communications, in contravention of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and Title III,” she wrote.
She further declared that the program “violates the separation of powers doctrine, the Administrative Procedures Act, the First and Fourth amendments to the United States Constitution, the FISA and Title III.”
She went on to say that “the president of the United States … has undisputedly violated the Fourth in failing to procure judicial orders.”
It’s too bad there’s no judicial remedy for punishing presidents who break the law — except when they lie about extramarital sex.
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If you haven’t had enough of this “ORDURE”,support the BUSHCO &Fellow Travelers like Lieberman.
If you have had enough of this “BUSHIT” get active in opposition, send money to YOUR STATE DEMOCRATS, join a campaign some how if to do nothing more than make phone calls or stuff envelopes, BUY IN THE NAME OF FREEDOM AND ALL YOU HOLD DEAR DO SOMETHING TO HELP SEND THESE BASTARDS DOWN!
Although the rightwing nutjobs are already declaring that this will be overturned, they are going to learn that honest, thoughtful judges who live up to their oaths of office, unlike Bushco and his Republican Guard, ARE going to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution against all enemies, both foreign and domestic.
Bush has demonstrably violated his oath of office and should rightfully be considered a domestic enemy of our system of government, and the BITCH-SLAP from Judge Taylor was well deserved.
Judge Taylor should be celebrated in song and history for striking this wonderful blow for freedom.