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It is legal because it's secret, it is secret because it's legal...
Jul 07, 2007 10:31
Now THIS is preposterous:
ppeals court has stayed a judge's decision to stop the secret wiretapping program, which allowed the Fed to listen in on Americans' international communications.
Their main argument was that the plaintiffs could not demonstrate their injury from that program. And the funny thing is, they could not demonstrate it because the program is a secret program and they could not possibly know when they could be wiretapped.
So, in essence, we have a circular argument: The secrecy of the program protects its legality and its legality protects its secrecy...
Sad...
secret wiretapping
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federal appeals court.
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