We have an opportunity to bring the Bush administration to justice for illegal wiretapping. But President Obama is blocking the way.
On April 2, President's Obama's lawyers invoked Bush's radical theory of executive power -- and the 'state secrets' defense -- to argue for the dismissal of the Electronic Frontier Foundation's litigation against the National Security Agency for the warrantless wiretapping of countless Americans.
MSNBC host Keith Olbermann has said "The Obama administration is just flat out dead wrong about this." You can watch Olbermann and Constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley discuss Obama's use of the "state secrets" privilege to protect the Bush administration on illegal wiretapping in this YouTube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9MxVen7j7s
If EFF's case against the NSA is dismissed, we may never know the extent of the Bush administration's illegal spying on Americans.
Please join me and take action to support the Constitution.
http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/obama_wiretapping/?r_by=-1495784-Mm7K4bx&rc=paste[...]
"President Obama, I am deeply concerned that lawyers from your Department of Justice are invoking the 'state secrets' defense to block court review of warrantless wiretapping by the National Security Agency. Please ask the Department of Justice to abandon the 'state secrets' defense and let the courts decide if the Bush administration's domestic surveillance programs violated the U.S. Constitution."
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