Judge's rule on NSA spying? Is that why the US rushed UK into busting...

[kentuck]

....the plot? They did note in their explanations that they used wiretapping and the Internet to bust the plot. They gave that explanation before the Judge made the ruling. Did they think it was going to be received much worse than it actually was received by the public? Perhaps they are surprised at the lack of hue and cry regarding their unlawful and unconstitutional acts of eavesdropping? Did they know the Judge was going to make the ruling? When would they have known?

[intheozone]

1. I think so. I told my hubby at dinner

tonight that they had to have known the decision was coming down and that it would be against them. I think this decision had more to do with rushing the arrests than the Conn. vote. The assholes in the WH wanted to be able to point to those arrests when dismissing the decision as wrong. And, they wanted the citizens scared enough to agree with them. God, I hate the fuckers running and ruining this country!!!

[kentuck]

3. Makes sense to me...

I agree it makes more sense than the Lieberman vote..

[azurnoir]

2. Maybe

But more likely because they hoped to create a frenzy of fear when she did rule, she was appointed by a Dem president, thus giving them a new attack point on the same old, same old. Besides what makes anyone think that just because a non-repuke appointed judge ruled that warrantless wire-tapping is illegal they'll stop, I'm betting they won't, it will just go back to being secret. Which is exactly how they want it.