Bar Group President Is Troubled By Bush's Domestic Surveillance

[BiggJawn]

I'm posting this here because it's 25 hours old and I didn't see it in LBN at all.

http://www.wbbm780.com/pages/7165.php

CHICAGO (AP) -- American Bar Association President Michael Greco says there's a need to aggressively deter terrorism but he finds the president's domestic surveillance program deeply troubling.

Greco spoke Friday at an ABA conference in Chicago and said Americans shouldn't be frightened into sacrificing their freedom.

Greco says a Harris phone poll has found that 77% of Americans reject President Bush's claim that he alone can suspend constitutional freedom without any checks or balances.

Greco says an ABA task force has come up with a preliminary report on the legal issues surrounding the National Security Agency's power to eavesdrop on the communications of Americans suspected of ties to terrorism.

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The report on the Radio that I heard last night also stated that the ABA also felt that we already are losing our Constitutional freedoms, bit by bit.

77%? OK, so why aren't the Congress-Critters being inundated with demands that the Articles of Impeachment be brought?

(edited to corect some glaring "typos" in the AP text. Incredible!)

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Hey pal, you should've thought of that BEFORE you & the ABA gave

Sam Alito your "Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval".

[BR_Parkway]

2. As many times as they quoted ABA's highest rating for the man

they'll have a harder time downplaying this report then.

Not much, but a little something at least.

[hatrack]

3. "Troubled"? "TROUBLED"?

Shit, this guy should join the DLC and give seminars - "Apologizing for Holding Opinions 101".