Monday, August 21, 2006
"And as I discussed below (though not that coherently), public statements about the TSP suggest the surveillance was used only on those with a suspected connection to Al-Qaeda—something none of the plaintiffs specifically allege. Unless Greenpeace is admitting it communicates with Al-Qaeda. Is that what they’re saying? The ACLU complaint contains repeated assertions that these guys have the “well-founded belief” that they were being spied upon by the NSA; but apparently their belief was founded upon an erroneous understanding of what the NSA was actually up to—or, even if they were right, their understanding of the TSP was very different from the Court’s."