[lbo-talk] US govt surveillance protected by Catch 22

Jordan Hayes jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com
Tue Aug 14 16:03:41 PDT 2007


Back in July, Doug responded to me:


>> What's not clear is why there isn't anyone around with good
>> standing.
>
> You have to know you're being tapped. Who does?

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0814/p01s02-usju.html

NSA wiretapping trial begins

The federal appeals court in San Francisco holds a hearing Wednesday about a case involving NSA call logs, which were inadvertently provided to lawyers for a Saudi charity.

By Brad Knickerbocker | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

Ashland, Ore.

It's hard – often impossible – to prove that secret government wiretapping in the name of national security is violating one's privacy rights. The evidence itself usually is top secret.

But one rather obscure case could pull back the veil on a surveillance program that's at the heart of the US fight against terror. In the federal appeals court in San Francisco Wednesday, lawyers for a Saudi charity accused of helping Al Qaeda will argue that their clients, including two American attorneys, were illegally spied on without the required court warrant.

How do they know? Treasury Department officials inadvertently provided them with National Security Agency (NSA) call logs stamped "top secret."

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