Oregon Lawyers Voice Fear of Scrutiny

Source: Eugene Register Guard

In a terrorism-financing investigation centered on the offices of an Islamic charity here, the government mistakenly provided defense lawyers in August 2004 with what the lawyers say was a logbook of intercepted phone calls between the charity’s lawyers in Washington, D.C., and clients in Saudi Arabia.

The charity’s lawyers say the logbook, which was stamped “top secret,” appeared to reflect eavesdropping under the National Security Agency’s warrantless wiretapping program.

After the government realized its mistake, defense lawyers were ordered to return all copies of the logbook to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and were warned that they could face prosecution if they disclosed its contents.

It is believed to be the only case in which nongovernment lawyers may have seen physical evidence of the security agency’s so-called terrorist surveillance program, which has been called unconstitutional by many legal scholars, lawmakers and civil liberties groups because it allowed the monitoring of the phone calls of Americans without a court’s permission.

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...that they can send to the Obama White House next year.

- K&R!!!

THAT was a close one!

Or What the Hell-Why is this crap not being addressed in light of the request to continuing this spying techinique,and immunity.