Archive for the ‘civil rights’ Tag

Judicial Oversite for US Domestic Spy program

Thursday, January 18th, 2007

CNN has the story Secret court to monitor domestic spying program

What is interesting is this:

“Accordingly, under these circumstances, the President has determined not to reauthorize the Terrorist Surveillance Program when the current authorization expires,” the attorney general wrote.

From that it obvious that the spy program is about extending Executive Power and NOT about a finding terrorist. And the reason the President doesn’t want over site on this program is that the KNOWS he is going to be preforming surveillance without ANY legal reason to do so.

And in case you forgot:

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Dap: /.

Finally Got Him

Tuesday, June 21st, 2005

Edgar Ray KillenReuters

PHILADELPHIA, Miss. (Reuters) - Accused Ku Klux Klansman Edgar Ray Killen was found guilty of manslaughter on Tuesday in the 1964 killings of three civil rights workers, a case that outraged much of the country and energized the civil rights movement.

update: Killen gets 60 years.