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Sunday, June 22, 2008 12:00 AM

Time magazine uncritically prints Nancy Pelosi's "justifications" for the FISA "compromise"

The congressional Democratic leadership explains that sacrificing the Fourth Amendment and the rule of law is necessary to win some more swing seats.
Glenn Greenwald

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  • Sunday, June 22, 2008 10:35 AM

    Not that it should have to come to this, but

    "If a law that includes immunity and unconstitutional basket warrants is signed, you can rest assured that ACLU lawyers will be in court challenging it as quickly as humanly possible."

    2008 Work Plan http://www.aclu.org/FilesPDFs/Workplan2.pdf

    They've had plenty of time to think about how they'd approach it.

    —EJ Read EJ's other letters

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