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Gli Stati Uniti oppone il rilascio delle decisioni della corte sopra wiretaps
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La gestione di Bush opposta negli Stati Uniti solleciti il venerdì uno sforzo sbucciare indietro un coperchio di segretezza sopra il relativo programma domestico di wiretapping di counterterrorism, che i critici dicono infrange sulla segretezza e sui diritti. In una limatura con la corte di sorveglianza di intelligenza straniera, che è in se segreta e sorveglia il programma, gli Stati Uniti Il reparto della giustizia ha detto che la corte dovrebbe rifiutare una richiesta dall'unione americana di libertà civili di rilevare le relative decisioni legali al centro del dibattito sopra il programma.
Ha detto che la corte non ha avuta autorità per ordinare tale materiale declassified, il ACLU non ha avuto base per la limatura della relativa richiesta con la corte e quello che la assegna comprometterebbe il programma di sorveglianza.
“The public disclosure of the documents the ACLU requests would seriously compromise sensitive sources and methods relating to the collection of intelligence necessary for the Government to conduct counterterrorism activities,” the department said in its filing.
The ACLU said keeping the rulings secret would hamper political debate over the government’s surveillance authority.
“This debate should not take place in a vacuum. The public has a right to know, at least in general terms, what kinds of surveillance the court authorized and what kinds of surveillance it disallowed,” Jameel Jaffer, director of the ACLU’s National Security Project, said in a statement.
Following an order by the court in January, the administration placed under its supervision the program begun earlier by U.S. President George W. Bush of wiretapping conversations between foreign terrorism suspects and Americans.
The Democrat-led Congress in August passed legislation that authorized the program for six months, but Democrats who say the law went too far have vowed to revise it at the earliest opportunity.
The ACLU filed its request to declassify court findings on the program as part of multiple efforts to contest it. The organization wants released the court’s January order as well as the administration’s original request to the court.
The Senate Judiciary Committee has issued a subpoena to the White House and other agencies for records on the program’s justification, but it has been rebuffed. The committee’s Democratic chairman, Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy, has said he considers the administration in contempt, but Congress has taken no action.
The ACLU is due to file its response to the government briefing on September 14.
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