Alito Defended Government Wiretapping
Well, I think we can count this clown out insoafar as getting confirmed as a U.S. Supreme Court judge.
An AP newswire article, via MSNBC, reports that:
Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito defended the right of government officials to order domestic wiretaps when he worked for the Reagan Justice Department, documents released Friday show.
He advocated a step-by-step approach to strengthening the hand of officials in a 1984 memo to the solicitor general. The strategy is similar to the one that Alito espoused for rolling back abortion rights at the margins.
The release of the memo by the National Archives comes when President Bush is under fire for secretly ordering domestic spying of suspected terrorists without a warrant. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., has promised to question Alito about the administration’s program.
posted by Fergie @ 12/23/2005 12:42:00 PM
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