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Bush administration officials denied that the ruling would permit a wider range of suspects to be bugged.


But the American Civil Liberties Union said it would allow the attorney-general to suspend constitutional protections in order to listen in to phone calls, read e-mails and conduct secret searches of homes and offices.


One Democratic Congressman, John Conyers of Michigan, said the ruling was despicable- that the administration was dismantling basic rights piece by piece.

Another area of criticism was that the ruling was issued by a special intelligence court, an appeals panel of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that sits in secret and did not publish its judgement in full.

Since the government was the only party to the case, there is no direct way anyone else can appeal against the decision.


{except they've bred out their herds to where the word 'despicable' has no weight. most people in America care nothing for morality or questions of honor. it's thuggy-boys and suck-ups and all that. it's only about the comebacks. measuring the potential for retaliation. it doesn't matter if thuggy-boy really is despicable. if he's gonna win, he gets the respect.
that to me was the biggest trap. they made us all believe it was enough to be right, to be honorable. to care. to have empathy and compassion. it meant nothing. not only was there no power in those qualities, in the end they took control of the very air in which those qualities hung suspended. so that righteous men now are made to look like fools, while the most craven, debased, and cowardly creatures are dressed in regal colors.}