Lawyers defend clients with terrorism backgrounds against
invasion of privacy, now that Bush Bashing Liberbal Media has made an issue of the Patriot
Act and protecting rights of terrorists and potential threats.
Lawyers for an Islamic scholar, a Fort Lauderdale computer programmer and an Ohio trucker
want federal judges to determine whether evidence used against their clients was gathered
by a secret domestic spying program.
Jonathan Turley, a George Washington University law professor, said there "seems to
be a great likelihood" that Ali al-Timimi, a northern Virginia Islamic cleric
convicted for exhorting followers after the Sept. 11 attacks to wage war against U.S.
troops overseas, was "subject to this operation."
Attorney Kenneth Swartz of Miami wants to know whether any evidence was gathered by the
National Security Agency without a warrant and used to convince a secret court to
authorize wiretaps of his client, Adham Amin Hassoun. Hassoun a U.S. citizen held for
nearly four years as an "enemy combatant," was charged with raising money to
support violent Islamic fighters outside the United States.
Attorney David Smith said he will incorporate the NSA wiretaps into his appeal on behalf
of Lyman Faris, a truck driver convicted of plotting to destroy the Brooklyn Bridge. At
his sentencing hearing, prosecutors acknowledged that federal agents were led to Faris by
a telephone call intercepted in another investigation.
President Bush has acknowledged that within days of the Sept. 11 attacks he authorized the
NSA to conduct warrantless intercepts of conversations between people in the United States
and others abroad who had suspected ties to al-Qaida or its affiliates.
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