Friday, December 30, 2005

❄ REPERTORIAL EXPOSÉS & ACLU ASSESSMENT   

I’m pleased that the story of Administration ‘black site’ prisons abroad and prisoner ‘renditions’ was broken by a Washington Post reporter who is a graduate of the Politics department in which I have taught most of the last 40 years. [See Note 1]

Now the scene shifts to The New York Times, which has exposed National Security Agency surveillance practices many consider illegal. [See Note 2] The ACLU has issued a concise statement summarizing why the NSA’s practices matter [See Note 3]:

ACLU.  “NSA Spying on Americans is Illegal”  29 December 2005.

[Note 1]: Dana Priest, “CIA Holds Terror Suspects in Secret Prisons”, The Washington Post, 2 November 2005.  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/01/AR2005110101644_pf.html

[Note 2]: James Risen and Eric Lichtblau, “Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts”, The New York Times, 16 December 2005.  http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/16/politics/16program.html?pagewanted=all

[Note 3]: American Civil Liberties Union, “NSA Spying on Americans is Illegal”, 29 December 2005.  http://www.aclu.org/privacy/spying/23279res20051229.html

Bruce 10:19 PM

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