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Originally Posted by Tubbs
I'm not tracking on this one guys.
Why is this a good thing?
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IMHO:
Good: ACLU, being the ACLU, pursued an action against the US government as plaintiff. The 6th dismissed the suit on standing. (ACLU could not prove harm to itself by the TSP) Supreme Court agreed with the 6th. It was a smack down, plain and simple.
The ACLU sued on behalf of itself, other lawyers, reporters and scholars, arguing that the program was illegal and that they had been forced to alter how they communicate with foreigners who were likely to have been targets of the wiretapping.
A federal judge in Detroit largely agreed, but the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed the suit, saying the plaintiffs could not prove their communications had been monitored and thus could not prove they had been harmed by the program.
Bad:
The Terrorist Surveillance Program was outed by the traitorous mass media. The TSP no longer exists and we are back to using FISA rules for all intercepts.
Ugly:
Drawing comparisons to the Terrorist Surveillance Plan and
Animal Farm or
1984.