Defense Lawyers Continue to Challenge NSA Warrantless Surveillance
In January, I wrote about Albany, New York defense lawyer (and frequent TalkLeft reader and commenter) Terry Kindlon being the first lawyer in the U.S. to file a motion challenging the Bush Administration's NSA warrantless electronic surveillance program.
U.S. News and World Reports this week has this article describing the several legal challenges mounted since. If I had any doubt that the Government might monitor TalkLeft, it's now erased:
The government has two weeks to respond to Kindlon's motions, which he says were inspired by a popular liberal criminal defense website, TalkLeft.com, created by Denver, Colo., defense attorney Jeralyn Merritt--one of Oklahoma bomber Timothy McVeigh's principal trial lawyers. Now others, like Chicago public defender Mary Judge, are learning from Kindlon.
Mary Judge submitted a letter to the Government as I predicted lawyers would do here, and her opponent is none other than Patrick Fitzgerald:
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