美国. 伊斯兰教的小组为反对warrantless而辩论窃听
AP | 一个伊斯兰教的慈善小组质询对所谓的国家机密特权的布什政府的记录用途，取绰号“凶手子弹”到小组的事例warrantless窃听。
律师为基于俄勒冈的美国。 AlHaramain伊斯兰教的基础的在星期三胳膊催促一位联邦法官丢弃对特权的政府的用途并且让他们的诉讼进行。
现在停止活动的基础在国家安全代办处的恐怖分子监视节目争论它被捉住了，在美国拦截电话和电子邮件。 没有保证的土壤。 它主张2004年窃听是财政部的依据根据同年正式标记了小组恐怖分子组织。
在挑战中心是财政部偶然地移交对AlHaramain's律师，说的一本最高机密的电话日志它显示政府恐怖分子猎人听他们的电话谈话与住在沙特阿拉伯的基础官员。
去年，第9美国。 联邦上诉法院拒绝了基础律师使用日志，当证据在布什政府以后援用了国家机密特权，争论那做，因此通过公开透露暗中侦察的技术危害国家安全兴趣。 基础律师承认他们的诉讼死，如果他们不可能使用电话日志显示政府监视。
自从特权被奉祀了入法律由美国，总统管理从未丢失这样法庭质疑。 1953年最高法院，根据学习问题的一位政治学教授。
但基于旧金山的上诉法院通过要求美国在生命维持保留了诉讼。 地方法院法官确定技术问题的Vaughn步行者国家机密特权是否相冲突与外国情报机构监视行动，以FISA著名，星期三辩论的问题。 FISA， 1978年通过由Congress，在华盛顿特区要求政府调查员得到一个保证从一个秘密法院 举办电子窃听被怀疑的恐怖分子在美国里面。
政府律师争论了星期三给总统非凡力量保护国家安全，包括能力窃听，不用保证。
法官是否想知道那个论据，如果真实，做要求保证的FISA法律违反宪法。
Justice Department lawyer Anthony Coppolino declined to answer that question directly by saying “it was too simplistic” and “conflating two issues.”
Coppolino said that the only way a victim of a warrantless wiretap could sue is if the government acknowledged the eavesdropping. Coppolino and other federal officials have steadfastly refused to confirm or deny investigators wiretapped Al-Haramain. Coppolino said to do so would harm national security by disclosing spying techniques.
Al-Haramain lawyer Jon Eisenberg argued that to kick out the lawsuit and validate that a president’s state secrets privilege power to authorize warrantless wiretaps “subvert the power of Congress” in passing the FISA statute.
Presidential administrations have invoked the privilege about 55 times since the U.S. Supreme Court enshrined the notion into law in a 1953 ruling and Sept. 11, 2001, according to research done by University of Texas, El Paso political science professor William Weaver.
Weaver’s research found that the Bush administration has used it 39 times since 2001 to unilaterally withhold court documents from the court system, the most of any president.
At the height of Cold War tensions between the United States and the former Soviet Union, U.S. presidents used the state secrets privilege six times from 1953 to 1976.
Weaver said the privilege has never been successfully challenged in court.
“Courts are really afraid to confront the executive branch on this issue,” Weaver said.
A separate lawsuit against telecommunications companies that have cooperated with the government is pending in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The companies filed court papers in the Al-Haramain case urging the judge to dismiss that lawsuit.
The U.S. Supreme Court last year rejected a decision by a federal judge in Detroit that declared the spying program unconstitutional in 2006, saying it violated the rights to free speech and privacy and the separation of powers.
The Terrorist Surveillance Program began after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and continued until Jan. 17, 2007, when the White House resumed seeking surveillance warrants.
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