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ACLU launches NSAwatch.org Website

Thanks to Declan McCullagh for mentioning this on his PoliTech blog.

The ACLU has just posted a number of materials on [their] web site aclu.org and the new nsawatch.org that we hope will add to the debate.

Those items include:

1. A new ACLU ad calling for a special counsel to investigate the President's illegal surveillance of U.S. Citizens.The add appeared in today's NY Times, as well as the web site along with related materials at http://www.aclu.org/safefree/spying/.

The text of the ad compares the words of President Nixon and President Bush, both of whom denied allegations of illegal spying. Next to the image of Nixon, the advertisement says: "He lied to the American people and broke the law." Below that is an image of President Bush, with the words, "So did he".

2. The Updated NSA Watch site (formerly known as Echelon watch): http://www.nsawatch.org/ which contains a wide variety of materials and links documenting the NSA's extraordinary communication interception capabilities ("sigint"), which are part of an international arrangement sometimes referred to as "Echelon".

3 A new piece explaining how the "NSA Spying on Americans is Illegal" at http://www.aclu.org/privacy/spying/23279res20051229.html

Since the Administration has sought to cast its unprecedented and lawless spying on American's as "legal", I have included the text of our piece below. You are, of course, free to use as much or little of it and the rest of this message as you would like.

posted by Fergie @ 1/03/2006 07:18:00 AM