Bush Admin Appeals Judge Diggs Taylor's Wiretapping Decision

[kpete]

Government appeals wiretapping decision
Sat Oct 14, 2006 2:18am ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration on Friday appealed a federal judge's ruling this summer that a controversial post-September 11, 2001, domestic spying program was illegal.

The Justice Department, in documents filed with a federal court in Cincinnati, argued that President George W. Bush had acted within the law in authorizing the surveillance of domestic wiretaps of international telephone calls.

In its appeal, the government stated that the federal judge's ruling "dismantles a tool that already has helped detect and disrupt al Qaeda plots."

It stated that U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor's decision directly conflicts with the Supreme Court's direction to "proceed with great caution in resolving challenges in this extraordinarily sensitive context."

more at:
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyid=2006-10-14T061737Z_01_N13432987_RTRUKOC_0_US-SECURITY-EAVESDROPPING.xml

[fooj]

1. Hey Georgie...can you do ANYTHING within the confines of the law?

Nevermind.:banghead:

[MissWaverly]

2. So just how long can he have a stay until it's reviewed

He always gets what he wants, it's not protect and defend the constitution, what a joke.

[MrCoffee]

3. And the 6th Circuit will affrim, and they'll appeal to SCOTUS. n/t

[Disturbed]

4. Warentless Spying is a Felony!

NSA has commited at the least 30 Warentless Wiretaps with the approval of the Pres. Anyone else that violates the Law is indicted and prosecuted. Why hasn't anyone been charged with these 30 Felonies?

[AtomicKitten]

5. This should be barely news as it is the way BushCo does business.

Considering they have such contempt for the judicial system, they spend most of their time in court challenging and sometimes just tying up (Cheney's Energy Commission records) what they feel are activist judges' decisions.