The Discerning Texan
All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.
-- Edmund Burke
-- Edmund Burke
Wednesday, December 28, 2005
Someone, please sedate me....
After reading the following story, I am guessing that my blood pressure may have jumped 30 points. They ought to rename the headline for this to the following: Leaks of Top Secret Program (with NYT Cooperation) May Enable Convicted Terrorists to go free. The New York Slimes reports on its own complicity:
Defense lawyers in some of the country's biggest terrorism cases say they plan to bring legal challenges to determine whether the National Security Agency used illegal wiretaps against several dozen Muslim men tied to Al Qaeda.
The lawyers said in interviews that they wanted to learn whether the men were monitored by the agency and, if so, whether the government withheld critical information or misled judges and defense lawyers about how and why the men were singled out.
The expected legal challenges, in cases from Florida, Ohio, Oregon and Virginia, add another dimension to the growing controversy over the agency's domestic surveillance program and could jeopardize some of the Bush administration's most important courtroom victories in terror cases, legal analysts say.
Thanks guys. Way to step up for the Home team (you know who I mean: I'm talking about the team that is actually attempting to prevent the mad religious zealots from murdering us all...)
UPDATE: Michelle Malkin scorches the New York Times for sins past and present. A must read.
Defense lawyers in some of the country's biggest terrorism cases say they plan to bring legal challenges to determine whether the National Security Agency used illegal wiretaps against several dozen Muslim men tied to Al Qaeda.
The lawyers said in interviews that they wanted to learn whether the men were monitored by the agency and, if so, whether the government withheld critical information or misled judges and defense lawyers about how and why the men were singled out.
The expected legal challenges, in cases from Florida, Ohio, Oregon and Virginia, add another dimension to the growing controversy over the agency's domestic surveillance program and could jeopardize some of the Bush administration's most important courtroom victories in terror cases, legal analysts say.
Thanks guys. Way to step up for the Home team (you know who I mean: I'm talking about the team that is actually attempting to prevent the mad religious zealots from murdering us all...)
UPDATE: Michelle Malkin scorches the New York Times for sins past and present. A must read.
