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Potential Evidence Surfaces Of Bush's Illegal Spying

Posted on Wednesday, May 10 at 08:39 by sthompson
The story begins in February 2004, when the Office of Foreign Assets Control froze all funds of the Oregon branch of the Saudi Arabian charity Al-Haramain. Attorneys Asim Ghafoor and Wendell Belew defended the charity against the government's allegations that Al-Haramain Oregon was taking part in terrorist activities.

In August 2004, as a routine court procedure, the FBI provided the lawyers and defendants with documents relating to the trial. The FBI's lawyers accidentally released a document that showed the government had used logs of conversations between the lawyers and their clients, Soliman al-Buthi and the organization, to categorize Al-Haramain as a terrorist group. The catch is that the logs were obtained without a warrant.

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  1. by Michael Scott
    Thu May 11, 2006 1:24 am
    Ummmm... no offense here, but can't you use the President's own words as the ultimate evidence?<br />
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    <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/12/17/bush.nsa/">http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/12/17/bush.nsa/</a><br />
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    He said he authorized the wiretaps. On the record. What more evidence do you need? The only real question is the debate around how illegal this is - and that's before congress now. Maybe they'll impeach him (fat chance so long as the Senate and Congress are owned by Republicans).



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