What the Judge actually said regarding the NSA spying program. Why doesn’t the press care?

By Bill Larson | August 19, 2006 |

I posted the other day on the ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Anna Diggs Taylor in response to the lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union challenging the President’s so called “Terrorist Surveillance Program” (TSP). It was a story posted with little review of the judges decision. Her ruling actually raises serious issues that extend beyond that one program. Â

The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. - THE FEDERALIST NO. 47, at 301 (James Madison)

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