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DOJ to Release Internal Wiretap Documents

By Jeralyn, Section War on Terror
Posted on Tue Feb 14, 2006 at 10:22:07 AM EST
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In responding to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought by the National Security Archives and the ACLU, the Justice Department announced to the court that it could begin releasing the internal documents the Bush Administration used to justify its warrantless surveillance program by March 3.

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    DOJ to Release Internal Wiretap Documents | 2 comments (2 topical)
    Re: DOJ to Release Internal Wiretap Documents (none / 0) (#1)
    by Edger on Tue Feb 14, 2006 at 07:38:47 PM EST
    A bit OT, but related news is that Russell Tice, the former NSA employee/whistleblower who had asked to testify to Congress re surveillance bypassing the FISA Court, has testified to the House Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations. Tice told the subcomittee on Tuesday:
    there is another ongoing top-secret surveillance program that might have violated millions of Americans' Constitutional rights. ... [and that] he has concerns about a "special access" electronic surveillance program that he characterized as far more wide-ranging than the warrentless wiretapping recently exposed by the New York Times but he is forbidden from discussing the program with Congress. ... He is not even allowed to tell the congressional intelligence committees - members or their staff - because they lack high enough clearance.
    The UPI article goes on to say that:
    Subcommittee Chairman Rep. Christopher Shays, R-Conn., and Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, said they believe a few members of the Armed Services Committee are cleared for the information, but they said believe their committee and the intelligence committees have jurisdiction to hear the allegations. "Congressman Kucinich wants Congressman Shays to hold a hearing (on the program)," said Doug Gordon, Kucinich's spokesman. "Obviously it would have to take place in some kind of a closed hearing. But Congress has a role to play in oversight. The (Bush) administration does not get to decide what Congress can and can not hear."


    Re: DOJ to Release Internal Wiretap Documents (none / 0) (#2)
    by Edger on Wed Feb 15, 2006 at 03:10:12 AM EST
    CNN adopts White House's "terrorist surveillance program" terminology
    On February 11, CNN became the most recent news outlet -- following Fox News, The Washington Times editorial page, and the Associated Press -- to adopt the White House's terminology for its warrantless domestic surveillance program. In a report on CNN Live Saturday, correspondent Brian Todd referred to it as the "terrorist surveillance program" without noting that the term is one promoted by the Bush administration to cast the program in a way most likely to secure the public's support.
    TL, obviously "DOJ to Release Internal Wiretap Documents", just isn't (ahem...) "PC" enough for the title of this thread... It's looks like you'll need to change the thread headline to "DOJ to Release 'terrorist surveillance program' documents". So now the DoJ is aiding and abetting and improving the morale of the terrists? We have such a crazed, rabid, left wing, foaming at the mouth, bush hating, terrist lovin' biased media poisoning the minds of America these days. What's a poor badmouthed budding dictatorship to do??

    DOJ to Release Internal Wiretap Documents | 2 comments (2 topical)