Thursday, August 17, 2006

Judge says no to NSA spying!

Finally someone stepped up and took a stand about the NSA warrant-less wire tapping.
If you want to download the courts opinion click here.
This excites me to see a Judge stand up for the constitution. It seems almost rare these days, when others want to call the constitution a living document so they can interpret it however they please.
I will post more info about this issue later.

Currently you can go to these sites for more info:
ACLU
Yahoo News Article
CNN

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