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WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 - Defense lawyers in some of the country's biggest terrorism cases say they plan to bring legal challenges to determine whether the National Security Agency used illegal wiretaps against several dozen Muslim men tied to Al Qaeda.
And Lawyers wonder why we hate them??
No, actually they don't wonder at all.
The lawyers said in interviews that they wanted to learn whether the men were monitored by the agency and, if so, whether the government withheld critical information or misled judges and defense lawyers about how and why the men were singled out.
Inquireing minds want to know especially AQ
The expected legal challenges, in cases from Florida, Ohio, Oregon and Virginia, add another dimension to the growing controversy over the agency's domestic surveillance program and could jeopardize some of the Bush administration's most important courtroom victories in terror cases, legal analysts say.

The question of whether the N.S.A. program was used in criminal prosecutions and whether it improperly influenced them raises "fascinating and difficult questions," said Carl W. Tobias, a law professor at the University of Richmond who has studied terrorism prosecutions.
no the facinating thing is how Sedition is just another day at the office
Of course it's fascinating -- he's a law professor! It's not like he's a prosecutor, judge or national security analyst with his heinie on the line.
"It seems to me that it would be relevant to a person's case," Professor Tobias said. "I would expect the government to say that it is highly sensitive material, but we have legal mechanisms to balance the national security needs with the rights of defendants. I think judges are very conscientious about trying to sort out these issues and balance civil liberties and national security."
this is the problem they think these guys are our neighborhood common criminal not a enemy who's goal is maximum American civilian casualties
Once again, kids and law professors: the monitoring was done for national security purposes, not to build a case for law enforcement.
But Mr. Duffy said: "This is a limited program. This is not about monitoring phone calls designed to arrange Little League practice or what to bring to a potluck dinner. These are designed to monitor calls from very bad people to very bad people who have a history of blowing up commuter trains, weddings and churches."
The sad thing is this has to actually be said and then proven to the LLL's and the Mainstream Media

When is the gov going to prosecute these leaks this leaking crap has gotten way out of control and the reporters should be rounded up and imprisoned until their sources are revealed this is National Security at stake, examples should be made quick, but then this is no were near as detrimental to our national security as "the Plame Affair" sarcism errrrr
Posted by: Elmotch Unomoting3460 2005-12-28
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