[RP TownTalk] Md senator helps pass Telecom immunity

[Alan Thompson and Sarah Wayland]

Yeah, a bummer but not too surprising.  The ways of the law are strange.

The ACLU notes that the judge that DID rule on the merits of the case  
found the monitoring illegal, they just won't do anything about it  
until someone can prove they were harmed by being monitored, which  
the plaintiffs can't do.

The EFF case has a different strategy, which may or may not survive  
the courts.  You can read about it at http://www.eff.org/issues/nsa- 
spying

The dinner bell is ringing, so I won't write any more.

	Alan

On Feb 19, 2008, at 2:37 PM, Lou King wrote:

> Alan, Roland,
>
> I now hear that the Supreme Court has declined to review the lower
> court's decision on "communication monitoring" (vs eavesdropping).
>
> So as it stands you have the right to object if you can prove you have
> been monitored, but of course the list of who has been monitored is
> classified (for good reason I think).  So we must rely of the FISA
> Courts to protect us from the Executive Branch with the Legislative
> Branch making the rules of the game. Or is it the Courts making  
> sure the
> Legislative Branch does not infringe on the ability of the  
> Executive to
> meet its responsibilities, or either to infringe on our rights.
>
> Sounds like how the founders intended thing to be.
>
> Lou
>
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