Four quick bullet points on Judge Vaughn R. Walker’s decision today in Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation v. Barack Obama. (See pdf of ruling here.)
1. The judge’s opinion is pointed and fiercely critical of the Obama Administration’s Justice Department lawyers. At one point the judge dismisses the government’s “impressive display of …
This could be big news.
The case in question concerns the alleged warrantless wiretapping of two U.S. citizens by the National Security Agency under a controversial Bush Administration plan, which has since been altered and codified into law. The U.S. citizens, both lawyers for the al-Haramain Islamic Foundation, discovered evidence …
