{"id":499060,"date":"2010-04-01T07:48:47","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T11:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=76126"},"modified":"2010-04-01T07:48:47","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T11:48:47","slug":"early-morning-swim-keith-olbermann-talks-to-james-risen-about-illegal-bush-wiretapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/499060","title":{"rendered":"Early Morning Swim: Keith Olbermann Talks to James Risen about Illegal Bush Wiretapping"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Bushies disregarded the law? I’m shocked, shocked<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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A federal judge has rejected the Bush administration’s justification for warrantless wiretapping of suspected terrorists and ruled that federal agents had eavesdropped illegally on a U.S.-based Islamic charity. <\/strong><\/p>\n

The ruling Wednesday by Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker of San Francisco focused on the surveillance of a single organization, the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation – the only plaintiff in dozens of wiretapping lawsuits around the nation that had evidence its calls were intercepted.<\/p>\n

But Walker’s reasoning struck at the heart of the program President George W. Bush authorized after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, allowing agents to intercept phone calls and e-mails between Americans and suspected foreign terrorists without a warrant.<\/p>\n

When Bush acknowledged the surveillance in December 2005, he claimed the power to override a 1978 law, passed in response to revelations of wiretapping of political dissidents, that required the government to obtain advance court approval for each act of eavesdropping.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Walker said Wednesday that Bush lacked that authority.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

But…but…Bush could crush a child’s testicles if he needed to… [\/Yoo]<\/div>\n

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The Bushies disregarded the law? I’m shocked, shocked. A federal judge has rejected the Bush administration’s justification for warrantless wiretapping of suspected terrorists and ruled that federal agents had eavesdropped illegally on a U.S.-based Islamic charity. The ruling Wednesday by Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker of San Francisco focused on the surveillance of a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5394,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}