[IP] Re: Did wiretap laws put soldiers at risk?

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net>
Date: October 15, 2007 2:05:56 PM EDT
To: dave@farber.net, ip@v2.listbox.com
Subject: Re: [IP] Re:  Did wiretap laws put soldiers at risk?

Dave:

This story is, indeed, nonsense.

Even if the incident had occurred on American soil, the FISA
law would have allowed for retroactive approval of wiretaps --
something which even the most inexperienced of lawyers would
know.

Secondly, because the incident did NOT occur on American
soil, no approval was needed for a wiretap.

Thirdly, one must remember that the New York Post -- a
tabloid whose accuracy is on a par with that of the UK's
Daily Sun, is owned by Rupert Murdoch, the same person who
controls Fox News. Like Fox, the Post's coverage is heavily
slanted toward the agendas of the Republican party and the
Bush administration. As they say: Res ipso loquitor.

One can only hope that the Wall Street Journal, which has
just been acquired by Murdoch in a very damaging instance
of media consolidation, will not also begin to publish
biased, unsupported accounts which seem to be explicitly
intended to mislead the public and persuade Congress to
abridge citizens' Constitutional rights.

--Brett Glass
	



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