So, Where is “Espionage Against America” in the ACLU’s Mission Statement?
I really, really hope it’s not true that the ACLU has hired people to take pictures of covert CIA agents and showing them to Gitmo detainees. This isn’t a case of photographers waiting outside Gitmo with huge telephoto lenses like a bunch of UFO hunters outside Area 51. In some cases, the ACLU’s people took photos of the agents at their own homes.
If it is true, then the ACLU has committed an act of espionage, and I really have no idea whether they did it out of malice or galaxy-sized ignorance and arrogance.
What better way for the Left to show its true stripes than to share classified information and photos of undercover CIA officers with Gitmo detainees.
But, hey, don’t you dare question their love of country. After all, endangering America is the ultimate form of dissent!
Sister Toldjah isn’t waiting for the left, who you’ll remember were crying treason over the supposed outing of Valerie Plame, to get very exorcised about this.
John Stephenson notes that the ACLU wasn’t all that interested when they had the choice of protecting our privacy or raising money for themselves. We also learned not that long ago that the ACLU’s official policy now is we should trust our government completely.
I guess they’re only the guardians of our civil liberties when it suits them and, these days, it doesn’t suit them very much at all. I think it’s safe to say that they’ve gone far beyond disagreement at this point. They’re working for the other side.
Other Posts of Interest:
- Why Guantanamo Bay Won’t Close Next Year.
- Welcome to September 10th, America. Brace Yourself.
- SCOTUS Says that You and the Islamists are All the Same to the Constitution
Category: Anti-Americanism, Fighting the Islamists
Umm, what the ACLU did was legal. It's already covered by Paparazzi laws. They would only get into any trouble if they they tapped someone's phone or entered someone's house. You know, the kind of stuff the CIA does. The kind of stuff you support. Photographing someone has been legal since the 1920s. It's only illegal if you sell the photo. Unless you sell it to a journalistic entity for investigative journalism purposes. And the National Equirer qualifies under all legal rulings. And it's as reliable as Fox News, so under what basis can you say they can't send cameras to people's houses when Bill O' Reilly already does?
I agree – what is this lemming gene that is in so many Americans where they want to believe and support whatever their government tells them? "You better not act against any element of our government because they are our big brother and will take care of us." Where does that mentality come from?!?
And since when were you concerned about exposing CIA agents? I remember you supporting it when it was other agents.
And explain to me why a company like Blackwater can be legally exempted from any liability under criminal law when they legally commit murder. Yet an organization the abides by the law should be prosecuted. Obviously, you think photography is a more serious crime than murder. And you're crazy on that.
When can we have an American Constitutional Liberties Association (as 'union' is rapidly becoming an expletive).