Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Has the NSA Wiretapping Violated Attorney-Client Privilege?

A document leaked by Edward Snowden, along with interviews with lawyers representing terrorism suspects, reveal a disturbing loophole in this once-sacred legal principle.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

NSA can't be all bad if they violate lawyers!

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Sean said...

Notice that difference. If you're INDICTED for a crime in the US, the attorney-client privilege exists, but if you're "held" under the Patriot Act,or NDAA, the NSA, FBI, whoever, can wire tap and record the hell out of you and your attorney. I'd be willing to bet that even if you're indicted, and they want you badly enough, they'll claim that you were under Patriot/NDAA blanket, also, to get a conviction/disappear you.

Anonymous said...

There's a word that describes a government that spies and collects every single phone call, email, comment, game interaction, conversation, association, purchase, banking transaction, movement and stores the data in what they call the corporate store. You and I both know what that word is and means. Now, if we could only break the encryption on mass delusion. Until such time, we are falling down the abyss at free fall speed. At some point, we will arrive at the bottom. By then, it won't matter.

Senator Church..on behalf of humanity..while hindsight is usually 20/20, in this case, our failure to heed your warning is inexcusable however pointless now.

I only hope, should mankind escape his self made hell, he'll remember what the word tyrant really means.