On Monday, November 18, 2002, at 10:31 AM, Elyn Wollensky wrote:
Secret Court Says U.S. Has Broad Wiretap PowersWell, this is what you get with Star Chamber Government: not only are the actual specific _cases_ done with secret prosecutors, secret judges, secret panels, but the arguments over the underlying legal issues (which obviously cannot compromise a specific intelligence case and hence have no reason to be secret, even in Orwellian logic) are also secret.
36 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A special, secretive appeals court on Monday said the
U.S. government has the right to use expanded powers to wiretap suspected
terrorism suspects under a law adopted by Congress after the Sept. 11, 2001,
attacks.
One wonders about secret rulings which have never been made public. Perhaps the Supreme Court also meets in secret and issues secret rulings.
We have always been at war with Eastasia. Ignorance is strength.
And to think some people think Timoth McVeigh was wrong in liquidating a military target.
--Tim May
