WH asks judge to delay enforcing her order to halt NSA! I missed this

[rodeodance]

news dump last Friday!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060901/ap_on_go_pr_wh/eavesdropping
Govt. asks to keep eavesdropping program

By KATHERINE SHRADER, Associated Press Writer Fri Sep 1, 5:40 PM ET

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration on Friday asked a federal judge to delay enforcing her order for a halt to the government's warrantless communications surveillance program.


The Justice Department argued that ending the intelligence-gathering program threatens "the gravest of harms to the government and to the American public" and leaves the country "more vulnerable to terrorist attack."

"We respectfully submit that this court should not override the national security judgment of the president and the nation's senior intelligence officers regarding the harm that would result" from the program's suspension, the government lawyers argued in a motion filed with the court.

U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor ruled last month in Detroit that the National Security Agency's warrantless surveillance program is unconstitutional and ordered that it be halted.

The Justice Department appealed Taylor's decision to the Cincinnati-based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

The American Civil Liberties Union, which brought the suit along with 11 other parties, will oppose a stay, but agreed to delay enforcement of the injunction until Taylor hears arguments Sept. 7.

[MissWaverly]

1. I thought that they already had a delay

is this another, justice delayed is justice denied, why should there be a delay in correcting
law breaking.

[rodeodance]

2. there is a stay of the order in effect till Sept 7:

The American Civil Liberties Union, which brought the suit along with 11 other parties, will oppose a stay, but agreed to delay enforcement of the injunction until Taylor hears arguments Sept. 7.

[MissWaverly]

7. thanks for the update

I say no more delays, this has been going on for long enough already, it became public knowledge
last December.

[DeSwiss]

3. Yeah, right...

"We respectfully submit that this court should not override the national security judgment of the president and the nation's senior intelligence officers regarding the harm that would result"

They just can't help themselves from getting their "digs" in can they? So they added the word "respectfully" to smooth it over the rest of that crap, huh? While in the next breath say: "this court should not override the national security judgment of the president." Who the hell will override his stupidity if not the courts? They're trying to tell the judiciary that it has no role in how the country is governed? Pffft!!! So this is the basis of their request?

DENIED, NEXT CASE!!!

[Rex_Goodheart]

5. She shouldn't override the president's judgment?

Yeah... he's been correct about so many things, right?

[sakabatou]

4. "We still want to do illegal wiretaps!"

"C'mon judge, can't your heart turn to coal like ours?"

[StrictlyRockers]

6. Whoops, mom caught me with my hand in the cookie jar. Let's go ask dad.

Maybe he will overrule mom's judgement.

Wahhhh!! Daddy Scalia! Wahhhhh!

[Nictuku]

8. I think it was appropriate

.. To agree to a stay of execution until the Appeal (providing the appeal was put on a fast track). We should hear more about it this week.

I wonder what kind of wrangling they have been doing to influence the court of appeals judge that will hear this case on 9/7.

[formercia]

9. Gee, just 4 days before 9/11

I wonder what kind of party is being planned....