Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 22:45:02 EST From: freemanaz@aol.com Subject: [azpeace] 12-12-01 -- ACLU Action Update: Rescind Ashcroft's Eavesdropping Regulation To: azpeace@yahoogroups.com Cc: oraclearchitecture@home.com Reply-To: azpeace@yahoogroups.com
Subj: 12-12-01-- ACLU Action Update: Rescind Ashcroft's Eavesdropping Regulation Date: 12/12/01 3:04:51 PM US Mountain Standard Time From: action@dcaclu.org To: aclu_list@capwiz.mailmanager.net
TO: ACLU Action Network Members FR: Jared Feuer, Internet Organizer DT: December 12, 2001
Without observing the legally mandated period of public review and comment, Attorney General Ashcroft has implemented a new eavesdropping regulation that gives the government, without judicial oversight or meaningful standards, the unprecedented power to listen in on conversations between prison inmates and their attorneys.
The new regulation renders the age-old tradition of attorney-client privilege worthless and essentially guts the right to counsel guaranteed by the Constitution. Furthermore, the new regulation is unnecessary since the Department of Justice already has the legal authority to record attorney-client conversations by going before a judge and obtaining a warrant.
Take Action! The Bureau of Prisons is compiling public comments through December 31 and a huge public outcry could force Ashcroft to rescind the regulation. Now is the last time to speak out! You can read more and send an email to the Bureau of Prisons from or action alert at:
http://www.aclu.org/action/attorney107.html
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