The ACLU is joining the appeal of a man convicted for seeking to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge who wants his conviction overturned because he was “illegally” spied on by NSA.
Back in December, Iyman Faris, the only named American target of the National Security Agency’s secret warrantless wiretap program announced his consideration of a lawsuit against the president of the United States. To accomplish this goal, his lawyer David Smith issued an all points bulletin for civil liberties attorneys and constitutional scholars interested in taking up his client’s case.
“There has to be a real plaintiff with a real injury,” explained Barry Steinhardt, director of the ACLU’s Technology and Liberty program, one of many civil libertarians who
Despite Faris’ admitted guilt, . . . were chomping at the bit to get him off the hook,
says StopTheACLU.com. What did the man say about liberalism? Yes, James Burnham: “Liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide.” I think of Chill Wills riding the a-bomb with a cowboy whoop in “Dr. Strangelove.” That’s ACLU riding its ideology.
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