DISQUS

The Washington Independent: Spying Law Challenged

  • schnick · 1 year ago
    Stories that I imagine would have been much harder to write without a reasonable expectation of private international phone communication:

    the CIA black prison story

    the financial records data mining story



    Anyone who thinks those stories being published is not in the public interest is not paying attention.



    I am not sure that this law is not a de facto first amendment violation as well of freedom of the press.



    In the words of a "great American": "Trust, but verify."
  • lvdragonlady · 1 year ago
    This is what Barack was talking about, when he said that he would let the courts decide on this.

    It makes sense to me now, because I was very upset that he chose to vote for it.
  • amiblue · 1 year ago
    We can be fairly confident that a majority of the supremes will not see it the way the ACLU sees it. That is why it never should have been enacted in the first place.