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Nov. 10th, 2001 07:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
asherisAshcroft's at it again...
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Ashcroft's at it again...
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<b>Justice to monitor some attorney-client communications</b>
<i>Limited to federal detainees suspected of plotting terror</i>
November 9, 2001 Posted: 11:24 PM EST
(CNN) -- As part of its broad investigation into terrorism, the Department of Justice has decided to monitor communications between some federal detainees and their attorneys.
That move -- which critics say is at odds with the long-recognized attorney-client privilege -- is necessary to help "prevent further terrorist acts," the department said in a statement released Friday
<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2001/LAW/11/09/attorney.client/index.html"> See more</a>
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So if you're DETAINED (not even charged, much less convicted), they can listen in just in case you're using your attorney to plot. That's mucking with some fundamental legal rights- hell, what happened to "innocent until proven guilty"?
I really don't see how this is supposed to "prevent further terrorist acts".
They claim that what is heard can't (for the most part) be used against the detainee at trial; at the same time, they've already changed the rules so that they can arrest/detain someone and/or search their property/belongings based only on an anonymous tip.
How difficult would it be to arrange for an "anonymous" call to a tip line, notifying the government of what the detainee said?
They're also bringing back <a href"http://www.cnn.com/2001/LAW/11/08/inv.sedition.laws.ap/index.html"> Sedition Laws</a>- Civil War-era legislation that was more recently used by McCarthyites to prosecute communists for teaching "subversive doctrines", ie including Marx on a reading list.
Don't know about anyone else, but I for one am feeling a lot LESS secure thanks to our lovely government.
<blockquote)
<b>Justice to monitor some attorney-client communications</b>
<i>Limited to federal detainees suspected of plotting terror</i>
November 9, 2001 Posted: 11:24 PM EST
(CNN) -- As part of its broad investigation into terrorism, the Department of Justice has decided to monitor communications between some federal detainees and their attorneys.
That move -- which critics say is at odds with the long-recognized attorney-client privilege -- is necessary to help "prevent further terrorist acts," the department said in a statement released Friday
<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2001/LAW/11/09/attorney.client/index.html"> See more</a>
</blockquote>
So if you're DETAINED (not even charged, much less convicted), they can listen in just in case you're using your attorney to plot. That's mucking with some fundamental legal rights- hell, what happened to "innocent until proven guilty"?
I really don't see how this is supposed to "prevent further terrorist acts".
They claim that what is heard can't (for the most part) be used against the detainee at trial; at the same time, they've already changed the rules so that they can arrest/detain someone and/or search their property/belongings based only on an anonymous tip.
How difficult would it be to arrange for an "anonymous" call to a tip line, notifying the government of what the detainee said?
They're also bringing back <a href"http://www.cnn.com/2001/LAW/11/08/inv.sedition.laws.ap/index.html"> Sedition Laws</a>- Civil War-era legislation that was more recently used by McCarthyites to prosecute communists for teaching "subversive doctrines", ie including Marx on a reading list.
Don't know about anyone else, but I for one am feeling a lot LESS secure thanks to our lovely government.
