re: #163 lawhawk

Greenwald touts that the NSA and FBI had wide latitude in carrying out surveillance against … wait for it… suspects, including Americans who were long believed to be working with/for terror groups.

He’s going on about how programs that ended in 2008. Collection status - terminated 02/01/2008 through 02/08/2008. In other words, the collection of data on those individuals ended under those former programs.

This is what Greenwald thinks is a blockbuster?

The FBI had CAIR under surveillance? That’s supposed to be newsy? That they even had some attorneys who worked in terrorism related cases under surveillance? Lynne Stewart conspired with her clients to send messages to Sheikh Rahman’s followers in violation of her agreements with prosecutors to not do so.

For a bureaucracy that was supposedly out of control, the program ended not with a bang, but a whimper. And all without Snowden stealing documents to “blow the whistle”.

I think it’s odd that the left doesn’t think of Stewart as a traitor.

It’s one thing to represent the oppressed, but not only to be sympathetic to, but collude, with criminals like that is reprehensible for a member of the bar sworn to uphold the Constitution—all of it.