Able Danger Roundup

Top intelligence officers are bashing each other. Are the hearings sanitized for our [lack of] protection? MacRanger thinks so. He's also critical of Rep. Weldon, who is an imperfect messenger for disclosing the Able Danger program as he's too emotional. But you should read Shaffer's testimony.

AJ Strata was liveblogging and has the skinny on Stephen Cambone's testimony. Vi at QT Monster has more.

In a related piece of information, the federal government must release information related to the NSA eavesdropping program. The information release is a result of a lawsuit by EPIC, the Electronic Privacy Information Center.

A federal judge Thursday ordered the Justice Department to respond within 20 days to requests by a civil liberties group for documents about President Bush’s domestic eavesdropping program.

The ruling was a victory for the Electronic Privacy Information Center, which sued the department under the Freedom of Information Act in seeking the release of the documents.
U.S. District Judge Henry Kennedy ruled that the department must finish processing the group’s requests and produce or identify all records within 20 days.

“Given the great public and media attention that the government’s warrantless surveillance program has garnered and the recent hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee, the public interest is particularly well served by the timely release of the requested documents,” he said.

The media is still mischaracterizing the program, which involves transnational communications, not wholly domestic communications.

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