Bush White House to be Supoened over Wire Taps.

[leftyladyfrommo]

Breaking over on Raw Story. Big Headline in Red Lawyers will file against the White House and Verizon.

www.rawstory.com

Well this will be interesting. And I think it is a first!

[texastoast]

1. Couldn't get the link n/t

[leftyladyfrommo]

2. I changed it to just Raw Story - Its a big one in Red

You can't miss it.

[Richardo]

3. Let us know when it moves from RawStory.

:thumbsup:

[54anickel]

17. Here's one

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=71393

To: Assignment Desk, Daybook Editor

Contact: Bruce Afran, 609-924-2075 or 609-933-7695 (cell), or Carl Mayer, 609-921-0253 or 609-462-7979 (cell)

News Advisory:

WHAT: Press Conference Releasing White House Subpoena

WHERE: Verizon Headquarters, 140 West St., New York (at Vesey Street, across from the World Trade Center site)

WHEN: Tuesday, Aug. 29 at 4:30 p.m.

WHO: Bruce Afran and Carl Mayer, attorneys for hundreds of plaintiffs in litigation against the Bush Administration and the phone companies

DETAILS: Two lawyers who brought the first lawsuit against the Bush Administration, Verizon and ATT for illegally examining the phone records of virtually every American citizen will announce today that they are serving subpoenas on the Bush White House and on Verizon.

more...

[rodeodance]

22. Air America just carried this.

[Kagemusha]

4. Doubt this subpoena will get far though.

State secrets doctrine and all.

[leftyladyfrommo]

5. One of the goals is to see if their is an "enemies list"

of if certain groups have been targeted: journalists, peace activits, libertarians, members of Congress.

I hope they do follow up on that aspect of this mess - it is important to know if people on DU have been targeted.

[babylonsister]

12. I'd like to know which Dem politicians may have been

targeted, and how the subsequent info was used. Just how criminal is/was this?

[The Backlash Cometh]

13. We've subpoenaed the wrong person! Armitage knows for sure!

[Kagemusha]

14. I'd like that looked into, sure. Just not confident it will be.

What with the 'war' going on and all.

[tuvor]

6. Will bush and cheney be able to testify without being under oath?

[zbdent]

7. Anybody bitches at you about this, use the "illegal immigrant" argument

"What part of illegal don't you understand???"

Throw that in their faces ...

And follow it up that Cheney pointed out that the arrests of the potential bombers from Britain were surveilled using WARRANTS ...

[Trajan]

8. Would it have been too much trouble ....

To toss in the 'Fair Use' paragraphs in your thread post ? ....

[mcscajun]

10. Here are the relevant details.

I'm not holding my breath, but I Am withholding comment until this afternoon. We'll see if this happens and how much press it gets if/when it does.

Two attorneys representing claimants in a lawsuit over wiretapping by the National Security Agency will subpoena the White House today, RAW STORY has learned.

Bruce Afran and Carl Mayer, who represent hundreds of plaintiffs in lawsuits against Verizon, AT&T, and the US Government, will announnce today that they are serving both the Bush administration and Verizon with subpoenas.

The announcement is due to arrive at 4:30 PM, outside of Verizon headquarters in New York, RAW STORY has confirmed.

The subpoenas come on the heels of two federal court decisions that were seen as blows to the Bush Administration warrantless spying program.

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/BREAKING__Bush_White_House_subpoenaed_0829.html

[Vidar]

9. Great news. Hope it pans out. Thanks for posting.

[The Backlash Cometh]

11. Omigosh! Dare I hope?

[Ian David]

15. Remember how outraged we were over The Clipper Chip?

What a terrible, draconian invasion of privacy that was?

Oh, how trivial and quaint that seems by comparison.

If only The Clipper Chip and the right to strong encryption were the biggest invasion of our privacy we faced.

Thanks again, assholes at Wired Magazine, for swinging a few more votes away from Gore.

[shanti]

16. they ignore subpoenas

why should this one be any different? :shrug:

[jazzjunkysue]

18. Wish I knew if I could go down there and hold a sign. Don't know if it's

outside or in. I hope it's covered.

[onehandle]

19. Work for a Democratic Congress and the Subpoenas will be endless. nt

[Contrary1]

20. "We hope the White House will realize the need to cooperate."

He's joking...right?

[earthboundmisfit]

21. Of COURSE the White House will realize the need to cooperate -

which is precisely why they won't.
They'll f*cking ignore it.

[54anickel]

23. In the interest of National Security, of course. Surely you understand

they only have our safety, security and best interests at heart and would never think of abusing the program. If you're doing nothing wrong you have nothing to fear.

:sarcasm: