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FormerRepublican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 10:47 PM
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Bush warantless wiretaps conversations between lawyers and client...
Raw story:

"Documents cited in federal court by a defunct Islamic charity may provide the first detailed evidence of U.S. residents being spied upon by President Bush's secret eavesdropping program, according to the organization's lawsuit and a source familiar with the case, the Washington Post will report in Thursday papers, RAW STORY has learned. Excerpts:

The al Haramain Islamic Foundation, a Saudi organization that once operated in Portland, Ore., filed a description of classified government records in a lawsuit Tuesday and immediately asked a judge for a private review.

According to a source familiar with the case, the records indicate that the National Security Agency intercepted several conversations in March and April of 2004 between al Haramain's director, who was in Saudi Arabia, and two U.S. citizens in Washington who were working as lawyers for the organization.

The government intercepted the conversations without court permission and in violation of the law, al Haramain claims in its lawsuit. It contends that eavesdropping on the conversations bypassed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the 1978 law that requires the government to show probable cause that a U.S. residents is an agent of a terrorist group or foreign government and obtain a warrant from the secret FISA court before monitoring that person's calls."

http://rawstory.com/news/2006/Post_Thursday_Saudi_group_alleges_NSA_0301.html

THIS is constitutional?

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